Echoes From the Field by M. E.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 27, 1910

Echoes From the Field

By M. E.

Ten of the Missionary Volunteers in British Columbia are preparing for the next Standard of Attainment examination, and one society is supporting a colored student in the South.

The Queensland young people are sending bunches of flowers to hospitals, and devising ways to earn means for the support of their missionary.

The South Australian Missionary Volunteers recently sent a large parcel of canceled stamps to America to be sold, the proceeds to be used for missions.

The Victoria young people gave away eighty-seven bunches of flowers to the sick, and made forty-three articles for missions last summer.

A society of eighteen colored members has recently been organized at Nashville, Tenn. They have taken hold of their work earnestly, and plan to assist in raising a scholarship for the Huntsville school. All the members have enrolled in the reading courses.

In regard to the training bands in Berrien Springs, Prof. O. J. Graf writes: “We have recently organized our school into bands of activity. The young people’s band is one of the largest and most lively. The other three are the foreign and the home missionary, and the periodical band. We have doubled up the work of each band in such a way that they will not only take up problems connected with each line of work, but will be doing practical missionary work as well. For some time the foreign missionary band will not only study the interests of each field and how to meet the difficulties, but will also do Christian Help work here in the community, and prepare clothing, quilts, or something of the kind for some of our foreign missionaries.”

Let our German youth and those who have friends among the German young people, make use of the new German young people’s paper, Der Jugendbote. It is published by the International Publishing Association, College View, Neb. Price, fifty cents a year.

The Missionary Volunteer secretary of Louisiana writes: “A good spirit is taking hold of the young people, and I have high hopes of seeing something accomplished. The missionary spirit is wonderfully revived.”

The Missionary Volunteer work in Wisconsin is progressing. Some of the young people are a little late in starting the reading courses, but a large number are taking them up. The secretary reports that thirteen young people have been converted under his recent labors.

The members of the Lynden (Wash.) Missionary Volunteer Society are taking up Reading Course No. 1, with a determination to read all three courses. This is a worthy ambition. We hope their enthusiasm will hold out. Other societies and church-schools in Western Washington are taking this year’s course.

The Southeastern Union Conference will endeavor to complete its share in the Foreign Mission Seminary Scholarship fund this quarter.

The Kansas secretary writes: “The work here seems to be moving forward, and the Lord is blessing to the extent that several are being converted in our young people’s meetings. We also have a number of societies that are doing good work selling the magazines and publications. I believe the only solution to the problem of saving our young people to the cause of God is for us to put them to work, and to encourage them to continue to work until the Lord shall call them. We can not afford to settle down in a lifeless way when we see souls perishing about us.”

The Missionary Volunteer secretary of Indiana has been holding Sabbath-school and Missionary Volunteer conventions in connection with some meetings in the conference. She writes that all the societies are using the “Bible Doctrines” lessons.

There was an excellent revival among the students of the South Lancaster Academy at the time of the Atlantic Union Conference.

Several conferences have taken definite steps to organize conference Missionary Volunteer societies. This is an excellent plan, bringing the isolated young people in touch with the conference Missionary Volunteer secretary, and stimulating them to greater missionary activity.

Still the young people are pressing into the Reading Course circle, but there is plenty of room, and we are glad to welcome each new name. Very soon we shall begin the study of our denominational history, and we trust that others will join us in reading the story of how God has kept and prospered this people. M. E.