Holding to the Fields by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 30, 1913

Holding to the Fields

By W. A. S.

THE story of the century of missions bears tribute to the grace of constancy and perseverance on the part of missionaries in holding to the work. The knowledge of a people and the knowledge of a language are so much capital invested, which pays compound interest in increasing usefulness on the part of the consecrated and growing worker.

The organ of the American Board (Congregational) recently listed the faithful missionaries of that society who had fallen at the post of service during 1912. The eight workers falling in death had had a combined missionary service of two hundred twenty-two years, or an average of twenty-seven years each in the field.

The longest term in this list of service on the foreign soil was fifty years, spent in Turkey, by Dr. Wm. Farnsworth, the next longest being that of Mrs. Harding, for forty-two years engaged in work among the Marathi people of India.

W. A. S.