p. 32 | Facing the Wide World by W. A. Spicer

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 29, 1902

Facing the Wide World

By W. A. Spicer

The treasurer's report of mission offerings for the second quarter, ending June 30, is most cheering. The receipts were $29,403, the largest sum ever given in any ordinary quarter. Many are thinking and praying and sacrificing, in order that this message may be quickly sent through the whole wide world. Pray that as every dollar of this consecrated stream flows out upon the barren fields, it may be a blessing to souls, and bring the ending of this work a little nearer. We want to see as large a proportion as possible of our mission funds used in keeping the living preacher among the great masses in new territory who have never heard that there is a coming Saviour.

The fields are expecting additional workers this autumn. A number are already under appointment to go. A score, at the very least, should be sent out, and that would represent but a pitiful answer to the Macedonian cry that rings from all the ends of the earth. But the Mission Board can arrange to send workers only as the money comes in. The present work takes about all the present income. If the work is to be enlarged, the offerings must be still further increased. Let us not forget the regular weekly offering. Thousands are forgetting it. And let all pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth these additional laborers, who should by all means reach the fields this fall. Next to going to the fields is the joy of helping to send somebody else.

W. A. SPICER, Secretary Mission Board.