IS IT TOO EARLY TO MENTION THE MISSIONARY ACRE FUND?
By David Paulson
THE coming year will be the banner missionary year. We have every reason to believe that it will witness such a revival of the missionary spirit as most of those who are now connected with our work have never had the privilege of seeing. If some of us do not have just such an experience, it will certainly be because we deliberately ignore the opportunities of the hour. Every family should begin immediately to cultivate the missionary spirit by taking up most enthusiastically the missionary-acre idea, and beginning to make definite plans to set aside a portion of their farm to forward the educational movement among us as a people. There are some parents who are so blinded to the interests of their children that they do not think it worth while to do anything in their families to keep the missionary spirit alive. May God pity such parents, not only now, but when, a little later on, they are to stand at the bar of God to give an account for the stewardship which was intrusted to them here in this life. The missionary-acre plan is certainly a divine idea. It has come to stay. Every Seventh-day Adventist family should, the coming season, consecrate a portion of their soil, or a certain number of days’ labor, or some other definite thing, to the Lord’s cause. Let this be added to the New Year’s resolutions, and God’s Spirit will assist in the carrying out of the same. In these uncertain times it is well for us all to remember that the following text is just as fully inspired as the promise of the forgiveness of sins: “I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground.” “I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith. . . . The floor shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.” DAVID PAULSON.