OUR FOREIGN MISSION'S HEADQUARTERS.
By R. A. Underwood
IT may not be generally known to the readers of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES that the office of the foreign mission board is now located in Philadelphia, Penn., it having been moved east by action taken at the late General Conference in College View, Nebraska. A pleasant situation has been found at 1730 North Fifteenth Street, and the treasurer of the board, Brother W. H. Edwards, has moved his family from Battle Creek, Mich., where he was for years treasurer of both the General Conference and the foreign mission board, and is settled at the mission building and attending to the business of the board. By the moving of the board to Philadelphia it is hoped and believed that the mind of God's Spirit is met, and that the office is in a better locality to do its work. And still, as ever before, we look to God and his children for the support of our work. We hope that all to whom God has given a competency will not forget those who have willingly left their native land to brave the dangers of foreign climes—dangers unknown to the habitable portions of the United States—to carry the message of the love of Christ to perishing men made in the image of God. Their skin may not be white, but salvation means as much to them as to the more favored dwellers of civilized lands. In giving to them the Gospel our missionaries must brave the perils of death-dealing fevers, of the dreaded malaria, of the burning sun of tropical lands, of meagerly supplied and badly prepared foods, of impure water, and the many unfavorable conditions and circumstances not met with at home. The burden has been laid upon some to answer the call, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature," and they have nobly responded to the invitation of the board and gone forth in good faith, believing that the friends of missions at home would second the efforts of the board to render them a support. The treasury is very low, but the expense of living for our faithful workers goes steadily on. Let us take the situation home to ourselves, and place ourselves for a moment in the position of missionaries in an unfriendly region, and imagine, if we can, how it would seem to be without a constituency to favor us, without money, and perchance sick. May God abundantly bless his people, and pour means into their lap, that out of their supply they may with willing hearts return unto God for the promulgation of his work a portion thereof. All donations for foreign missions should be sent to Brother W. H. Edwards, 1730 N. Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. R. A. UNDERWOOD,
Member of the Foreign Mission Board.