p. 27 | Missionary Work in the Church-School

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 4, 1907

Missionary Work in the Church-School

By Mildred Wilson

The object of the church-school is the salvation of souls; not only the souls of the children and youth in our schools, but of those for whom they may have the privilege of laboring, both while they are in school, and when their training is completed, and they are prepared to take up life's duties in earnest.

There are many lines of missionary work that might be carried on in the church-school. In our school our work, so far, has consisted in giving away reading-matter. We are sending the Life Boat for one year to an acquaintance who is confined in the State Reformatory, and we also send him the Youth's Instructor every week. Then we are sending the Youth's Instructor and Our Little Friend to a lady who advertised in one of our daily papers for reading-matter for her nine-year-old girl. All the other papers we can get are distributed among our neighbors, and we also send some to the Southern field to be used in the work there.

We have our missionary meeting every other Friday afternoon. We then have either a Bible study or a missionary study, and wrap and address our papers.

We are also trying to raise money to get some much-needed helps for our school. We are now hemstitching handkerchiefs, which we expect to sell, and shall use the money for this purpose. Later we expect to make some iron-holders, which will also be sold to help increase the fund.

We trust in this way to inspire the members of our school, while young, with a desire to work for others, so that they will finally be led to consecrate all they have and are to the service of the Master. MILDRED WILSON.