A Businessman’s Testimony to Missionary Work
Mr. E. Alexander Powell, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, recently home from a world trip, tells us that the missionaries and their heroism is appreciated, and cites the case of an English business man in India who gave to a Y. M. C. A. missionary a check of about $100,000. The missionary afterward found him drunk, did his best to sober him up, and asked him why he drank. The business man responded that he was no churchman, did not pretend to be, gambled now and then, drank when he was thirsty; told the missionary that all his talking would not stop him, but he gave to the work of Christianity because that meant pounds and shillings and pence to him. The reason was that his workmen were honest and he could leave them with his work, he could trust them, he could know that it was just as they said; and he concluded the interview by asking the missionary to “come and have a drink.” Such a testimony as that ought to lead Christians to be more earnest and zealous and faithful in their work.