What Our Children May Accomplish
By David Paulson
At the Iowa and Nebraska camp meetings I grasped as never before what the children of this denomination may do. In these conferences our leading workers have been encouraging the children to undertake active missionary work, and they have found the selling of The Life Boat to be a convenient outlet for missionary activity. At the Iowa meeting there were nearly forty children who had been selling The Life Boat, and they had live experiences to relate at the children’s meetings. To a certain extent this was true at the Nebraska camp meeting. The children took hold of the selling of The Life Boat on the camp grounds with such enthusiasm that it fairly surprised the teachers. Nearly all the great missionaries began their missionary career in their childhood. When we are interesting children to do such simple work as selling The Life Boat, we may be laying the foundation in them for great missionary experiences in the future. God has put a certain amount of activity into every child, and if it is not wisely directed into right channels, then, like confined steam, it will show itself in destructive ways. Our church-school teachers find that some of the most restless pupils take hold of this work with the most enthusiasm. Do not crush the active spirit in your children. There is enough latent missionary talent among the children of this denomination easily to dispose of fifty thousand copies of The Life Boat each month. It would bring a great blessing to our children, to our homes, and to the people of the world, who would gladly purchase them. We supply them at two cents each, and they sell easily for five cents. This enables the children to earn money, which they can use to help other missionary enterprises. Why not consider this suggestion prayerfully, and then act upon it, if you are favorably impressed by it?