E. H by E. H. | AdventAI

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Nov 19, 1903

E. H

By E. H.

A BROTHER, recently sending an offering for missions, wrote that around the breakfast table that morning the conversation had been on our Nyassaland Mission, and as a result, a friend visiting them became so interested that he added one dollar and a half to their family contribution of two dollars, all of which was enclosed.

What could be more fitting, or more pleasing to the angels than such a scene,—the father, mother, and children gathered around the family board, enjoying God's bounties, with thoughts all turned to his great work in the earth? This is the way genuine missionary characters are developed.

Children will have no desire to spend their pennies foolishly, nor, as they grow older, to engage in worldly enterprises, if the needs and abundant opportunities in the great fields beyond become so familiar, and are made so fascinating. In such a home there will be not only an increased interest in missions, but deeper spirituality and greater liberality, and even more—converted children, who will be ready to respond to the Macedonian call for help, “Here am I; send me.”