Missionary Offering Envelopes
A COMPANY of workers has just landed in England, for France, Spain, Italy, Ireland, India, and Africa. This inspires courage; for it means the hastening of the return of our King. Many of our brethren and sisters who cannot go to these needy fields esteem it a privilege to share in supporting those who do go. The librarians of the churches write:— “We are distributing the little offering envelopes each Sabbath, and many are giving who before did not.” “We are interested in missions, and are using the envelopes in gathering our offerings. The Lord is blessing us, and we rejoice that the time is so near when he will return to gather his waiting people home. We are anxious to see the gospel carried to the ends of the earth.” “We have been using the envelopes with good results. Our weekly offerings for missions have greatly increased. The gospel must be preached to all the world for a witness, and then shall the end come. I think that the cause of God will be advanced by their use; for many small streams all flowing together will soon make a large stream. May the Lord move upon all hearts to give liberally, that the missionaries under appointment may be sent out to help finish the work, and thus bring back our Saviour.” “I find the small envelopes a great help in keeping the needs of the field before our little company. It makes our hearts ache to read the calls for aid and be able to do so little. May God help us to deny ourselves every unnecessary expenditure in this time of peril.”