Mission Board Office: Missionaries Sent Abroad and Children's Meetings
FROM MISSION BOARD OFFICE.
From many lands and many tongues prayers will ascend to God during the Week of Prayer. Heaven hears also the cry that continually comes up from hearts that as yet know nothing of our special season—hearts that long for deliverance from sin. Our prayers and theirs will blend before the throne, and somehow God’s Spirit will help us to seek out the waiting ones. Off to the Front.—Since the General Conference, last April, one hundred and four missionaries have left for other lands. This number includes the wives of missionaries, though not the children. We want the children, however, in the mission fields. Every one, little or big, is a factor in the work. There are few fields in which a well-ordered home, presided over by a motherly heart, is not the best possible missionary influence. To the Whole World.—Over a hundred workers sent out, and others very soon to follow—this means that the message is being carried to the world. Almost every week, during the past season, some818one has been taking ship for other lands. Let us keep it up during the year to come. Set the leaven of truth working in every nation, and very quickly the Spirit of God may cause the whole mass to be leavened. Children’s Meetings.—Don’t forget the children, but plan for some special help to be given them during the meetings. The children are quickest to catch the missionary spirit. They will help both at home and abroad. The other day seven dollars came in for missions from a children’s missionary service in Honey Creek, Ind. That was a very practical children’s meeting. Glad to Go Back.—Sister Georgia Burrus, who has been spending the summer in this country, has just left for India, glad at the thought of getting back among the women of the East. “I am going back,” she writes, “full of courage and hope, believing we shall see much of the blessing of the Lord in our work.” At the South Lancaster Eastern Union Conference meeting, at which Sister Burrus was in attendance a few days, she presented the idea of circulating the leaflets, telling some of her experiences. Hearts were touched, and all felt that the only proper thing was a collection for the leaflet work. So, in about ten minutes, about one hundred and seventy dollars was donated for scattering leaflets among the villages of Bengal. Further Helpers.—Two other workers sailed with Sister Burrus. Sister Grace Kellogg, of Wisconsin, goes at her own charges to work for India, where she has long felt the Lord would have her work. Sister Anna Orr, a Kansas Bible worker, goes also. The women of the Southwestern Union Conference hope to support Sister Orr, as their special contribution toward bringing the light of life into the secluded homes of their Indian sisters. Missionary Stock.—A brother and sister in Oregon send in sixty-five dollars for missions, most of which, they say, comes from the sale of four missionary calves. By this means the message will be preached in a number of distant lands. This is in truth letting “the field be joyful, and all that is therein, . . . for He cometh, for He cometh to judge the earth.” His Mite.—One little lad sends in fifteen cents for missions, earned by himself. He says it is his mite, and our little friend spells it “might.” It is not a bad mistake. He worked with all his might to get it, and it is all he has. If everybody will work in the same spirit, there will be such an annual offering as will make Heaven rejoice, because it will be an evidence that this people mean to put all their might and mind into finishing this work of witnessing to the world. They Come Before the Throne.—Don’t forget that a sincere prayer to God is a very real thing. Every petition comes up before the throne, mingled with the incense, which is the merits and intercession of Christ Jesus. John, in Revelation 8, saw the prayers of all saints coming up thus before God. There are not enough evil angels in the world to shut down one petition. It will wing its way straight to God. And by prayer hearts are converted, and God’s truth goes forward. May the Week of Prayer but lead more fully into a life of prayer.