The European Mission Field
The aftermath of our good California camp-meeting was gathered at Oakland. The “aftermath” is the sweet, fresh, tender grass which springs up under fresh showers and warm sunshine after the first crop has been cut and garnered. We know little of it in the Golden State. From the camp-meeting came Messrs. A. G. Daniells and E. R. Palmer, members of our Foreign Mission Board, the former president of our General Conference, both of them just fresh from a visit to the great European field. Brother Palmer spoke Sunday evening and Brother Daniells Monday evening on that great field, fitted for further sowing, and ripe for the harvest, waiting for God’s last great message of warning and preparation for Christ’s coming. Rev. 14:6-14. The many millions there waiting and ignorant were contrasted with the fewer millions in this country, more enlightened, and the fewer, O, so much fewer laborers and believers there with the many here. The $500,000 in regular funds expended here, much of it on believers, among 80,000,000 people was set over against $16,000 used there among 500,000,000. Pathetic incidents were noted as showing the great need and soul-hunger of the people there for the truth of the Gospel. Encouraging items and experiences were related of those who were seeking and finding the truth in various lands, especially in Catholic Austria, Hungary, Italy, even in Rome. These were soul-stirring talks; and it is good to note that there has been in California noble response in laborers and means to the needy Southern field in this country, to England, Africa, Spain, Germany, Italy. Praise God for part and counterpart of the appeals. New life will follow new giving. May God bless these brethren as they go to other fields, bless the great mission fields for which they plead, bless the laborers in those fields and those who are going to those fields, and our whole people, with such a burden of the great mission work and unsaved souls as was never felt before.