Foreign and Home Mission Outlooks

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 18, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 45.

Foreign and Home Mission Outlooks

IN the "General Missionary Department" of the Missionary Review we find this significant item: "How painful almost to the shocking is the contrast between the tidings which come from the 'foreign' departments of our societies, and those from the 'home' department! In well-nigh every case, while the former tells continually of deep interest, growth through conversions and need of enlargement, in the latter the main mention relates to lack of funds and the like. That is, tho among the heathen the outlook is most cheering, where Christians abound, the prospect is gloomy. O Lord, how long?"