Here are a few mission problems which may be taken in at a glance.
LITERATURE IN ALL LANGUAGES.
A firm of soap makers some time ago spent one hundred thousand dollars in filling the world with the picture of a boy blowing soap bubbles. They doubtless considered it money well spent. Advertisers often spend one hundred thousand dollars or double that per year in bringing some article before the public.
We ought to be advertising the greatest thing in the world—this precious message—in all the printed languages of the earth. The leaflets should be falling, literally, “like the leaves of autumn,” in more than a hundred languages as yet untouched by us. A thousand dollars spent thus in each of a hundred languages would bring the message this year before many hundreds of millions. This alone would take all of the one hundred thousand dollars called for this Week of Prayer. We cannot do that, for all branches of the work must be helped forward by the offerings made.
But our workers should have the means to publish the leaflets by the million in territory already entered. In most of the populous lands printing is cheap. For five dollars, for example, five thousand four-page leaflets may be sent flying among the people in the East, every one preaching a message that arouses the interest of the reader. Sometimes a whole village will gather round to hear a leaflet read and re-read. Shall we say to our comrades at the front that we will supply the means while they scatter the literature throughout the fields within reach?
QUESTIONS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE TO ANSWER.
Here is a sample of the very practical questions that come continually from the fields. A fresh attempt … persuade themselves that the things their brethren are trying to point out to them must be errors, and that those believing them must be in the wrong. But does this conclusion necessarily follow?—Hardly. What one can see depends largely on the position he is in. However honest you may be, you cannot see the truth unless you are walking in the light. Be sure that you are in the right position before you assure yourself that what others claim to see must be error. And remember that you cannot expect to see advanced truth unless you are yourself advancing. Truth does not come to you while you stand still, but you must come to the truth.
