p. 24 | Children's Missionary Letters Reach an Outside Mother

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 14, 1911

Children's Missionary Letters Reach an Outside Mother

SISTER E. M. GRAHAM writes from Australia: “One of our state secretaries told me the other day that some letters which she had written to some of our children were taken by them to school, and read to their playmates. This reached the ears of an outside mother, and she wrote to the state secretary, asking if she would not write to her children, three of them, saying she was willing to have them taught to work for our missionaries, as she thought that our way of working for the children was so good. It may be that this woman will be brought into the truth through this work. Several have accepted the truth through first helping in the work for our missionaries. Young people like to work if their energies are rightly directed, and this leads them into spiritual things. But this kind of work takes time. It means visiting the homes, getting acquainted with the young people and children, interesting them in missionary work, teaching them various ways of earning money, and through this, leading them to give their own hearts to the Lord. But it pays, and surely the souls of our own children and young people are worth the time of one individual.”