In Closer Touch with Foreign Fields
By A. T. Robinson
During the camp-meeting at Omaha, September 1-14, and the ten days’ General Conference Council which followed at College View, nothing was more stimulating to the hearts of the people than were the talks of the brethren from foreign fields. Elder Conradi told us how the truth is going forward in the European General Conference, which embraces one third of the world’s population. In this field, with one ordained minister to each seven or eight million, three thousand souls have accepted present truth during the past two years. Elder Conradi told us that at some of their general meetings, people of twenty-one different languages praised God for the light of the third angel’s message. Brother John Lipke spoke of the work in Brazil, South America, and Brother W. H. Anderson, who has spent eight years in the Matabele Mission, related stirring incidents connected with the work there. Our conference [Neb.] voted to place at the disposal of the Mission Board, to be called to the work in foreign fields, five of our laborers. The conference also instructed its executive committee to appropriate quarterly an amount sufficient to cover the salary of such laborers as may be working in some foreign field. This is a glorious move, and will bring joy to the hearts of our people. Brethren and sisters, when sending in your tithe, remember that quite a substantial portion will be passed along to pay the salaries of such of our workers as shall be called to other fields. Let us all pray that the Lord may move upon such of our workers as he would have go into the great unworked part of the Master’s vineyard, that his blessing may so attend the work, both at home and abroad, that when we shall again meet in annual conference, we may not only rejoice in what shall have been done, but be in a position to send additional workers abroad another year. We can never take any backward steps in this work. Those who do so are sure to be left behind while the great message of salvation moves grandly forward until the world shall be prepared for the coming of our King. At a meeting of the newly elected conference executive committee, it was voted that for each laborer selected from our conference to labor in fields beyond our borders, an appropriation of one hundred dollars from our surplus fund be placed at the disposal of the General Conference, to be used for transportation expenses of such laborers.