THE McALL MISSION

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 8, 1902

THE McALL MISSION.

The McAll Mission is doing a great work in France by means of its mission boats. A part of each boat is fitted up as an audience room, with comfortable seats, and bright lights, and some kind of musical instrument, while the rest of it makes a home for the missionary in charge. This boat passes up and down the waterways of France “bearing glad tidings of good cheer” to one and all. The boat stops now at this village, now at that, and the people gather to hear of the love of Christ as told in song or sermon. When a man has once attended

one of these services, he usually comes again and yet again, till at length he accepts Christ as his Saviour. The work is wholly non-sectarian, and when a man becomes a Christian, he is urged to join the church of his preference. Rev. S. S. Rossiter, General Secretary of the McAll Association, said recently:—

“We expect by the services held in this boat to reach at least 30,000 people every year. No other agency in existence is so effectual for reaching great numbers of people. This is our second boat, Le Bon Messager (The Evangelist) being the first. We hope in time to have a fleet of boats on the rivers of France, a veritable Salvation Navy; or, as the French newspapers express it, ‘The good God upon the waters.’”—Selected.