p. 405 | THE ONENESS OF FAITH

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 26.

THE ONENESS OF FAITH.

The National Baptist last December published an appeal for $500 to build a chapel at Hammerfest, Norway, five degrees north of the Arctic Circle. The paper containing the appeal was read by Baptist missionaries in Rangoon, Burmah. They told the story of the struggles of the band of ninety believers in Hammerfest to the pupils in the Karen, Burmese, Telugu, and Tamil English Sunday-schools in Rangoon. As a result 196 rupees, or $66.38, was cheerfully given to be sent to Hammerfest. Well may the National Baptist say: “This letter has to us a profound significance. Here is a lesson as to the unity in Christ. The disciples at the equator stretch out their hands in love to their brethren under the frozen circle. The men and women scorched and blackened by the torrid sun lay their hand in the hand of the men and women blanched by the three months of sunless night, and say, ‘Brother.’ . . . Here is a lesson of sacrifice. These poor people, living on a handful of rice, to whom an income of $50 is wealth, heavily taxed, sent the greatest help to their Arctic neighbors.”—Christian at Work.