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Luxuries Versus Foreign Missions

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 1, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 17.

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Luxuries Versus Foreign Missions

If the money expended for luxuries—the ornamental and that which caters to the appetite—were given for the furtherance of the foreign mission work, we would have millions for Asia and Africa where we have our thousands. Retrench we should, and here. Alas! must the conquest of these vast fields be retarded on account of our vanity and sensuality? Must pagan millions be lost because we cannot deny ourselves?—Sel.