Lay Members as Missionaries by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 3, 1907

Lay Members as Missionaries

By Editor

THAT the lay members of our churches can be a power for the advancement of this truth is being demonstrated continually in different parts of the world. In the Field Notes department of this issue of the REVIEW will be seen a record of the result of such missionary endeavor on the part of two churches. One increased its membership by thirteen members, and the other has organized a Sabbath-school of thirty members and developed a company of Sabbath-keepers ready for church organization. We know of other churches that are doing a similar work. Conferences have not been able to supply ministerial labor for some field where labor was needed, and the lay members of some church have taken up the work, and God has blessed the effort with abundant fruitage. Every church in the denomination should be that kind of missionary center. When they are, we shall see this cause advancing by leaps and bounds. Let every board of church officers take up the matter at once, consider the field around them, and prepare to supply its needs. This will mark the beginning of another advance move in the great work committed to our people.