Are Missionary Meetings Dull?
MISSIONARY meetings dull?—Well, we should say not. Long?—Not half long enough. Wearying?—Rather a tonic, which braces our muscles, and strengthens our spiritual nerves, and sets the blood bounding, and puts us in a glow. “Is life worth living?” asks the woman of the world or the half-hearted Christian. Come out into the kingdom of God and see. When we learn what he is doing with the degraded Filipino, the prejudiced, custom-bound Chinaman, and the darkest African, we want to live to see his work finished. We want to live and work in order to give, to have a hand in this movement. We want to live in order to pray, and so hold up the hands of those heroes and heroines who are doing this magnificent work. We want to live just now and here, to watch with joyful reverence God’s majestic march among the nations, and to see in glorious anticipation the speedy coming of his kingdom. You don’t feel any of this thrill of enthusiasm? Get on your knees, and if you have never got further than being a member of a Baptist church, ask to be baptized by the Holy Spirit into the membership of the kingdom of God. —Helping Hand.