Home Missionary Work for Missions
A LETTER recently received from the Pacific Press Publishing Company requests that the Mission Board name a mission field toward which contributions may be made by children and young people who wish to earn money for missions by the sale of Our Little Friend. The manager of the Periodical department informs us that it is their intention to enlist many of the children and young people among us in the sale of Our Little Friend, with the purpose of earning money for a mission field. We have named Africa as the field to receive these contributions; and we trust that the Lord's richest blessings may rest upon the dear children and youth, whose hearts may thus be turned toward foreign lands during the days of their childhood, while at the same time they are being trained for a world-wide work by these home missionary enterprises. Another letter from Sister Paulson, of Chicago, states that the publishers of The Life Boat would like to assist in building up the ten-cent-a-week plan for foreign missions by the sale of their paper. The paper sells for five cents a copy; and they will furnish it for two cents a copy to those who wish to earn money for the missions; and Sister Paulson suggests that it is only necessary to sell four copies of The Life Boat each week in order to secure twelve cents a week for foreign missions. Therefore, only a little effort is required, without any cash expense, to increase the circulation of The Life Boat, and thus increase the funds for the world-wide mission work. May the dear Lord greatly bless both these enterprises.