They Watch Every Sign by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 17, 1907

They Watch Every Sign

By W. A. S.

OUR missionaries watch every move in the home lands that means help for the fields abroad. Every splendid gift from conferences or people for missions sends a thrill of joy round the world-wide circle of our work.

The news that the schools are overflowing sends cheer to many a dark corner of the world, for it means prospective recruits.

The starting of the work of the Foreign Mission Seminary is hailed with special gladness in many parts. For instance, Prof. J. L. Shaw writes from India:—

We are very much encouraged by the plan to open a Foreign Mission Training-school in Washington. This is a move in the right direction. May the school prove a mighty factor in mission work in heathen lands.

The missionaries are watching to see a steady procession of laborers passing from our colleges and conferences through this Seminary into the fields. It must be, by the grace of God. Pray the Lord of the harvest to fill all our schools with the holy inspiration that makes young men and women missionaries. And as we listen to the calls in the mission office, we long to see yet more of our strong young people who have had the ordinary school work, those who have had some experience in life, and know how to do things without being told—we long to see these flocking in to this Foreign Mission Seminary on their way to needy fields. They must come, for there is a call for workers sounding that will never cease till the work is done, W. A. S.