The Real Missionary Spirit.
By Editor
A private letter to the editor of Our Little Friend breathes the real missionary spirit, which will not be downed at any obstacle. The writer says: "I have been burdened for more than a year that I must do some special missionary work, and it has seemed impossible to do it living on the farm, with so many things to do and pay. But I have made a promise that if the dear Lord is willing, with His help I shall raise one thousand dollars before my birthday next year, to build a mission home in China. My boy nearly ten years old promises one bushel of potatoes planted, and I will set my incubator with sixty eggs and give all the chickens. One has promised a strawberry patch, and others say they will help. I have several ideas as to how to raise it; but tho it may be hard, I will not give up until the last minute. I ask your prayers that it may be done long before that time." Then speaking of missionary work which she had already done, she says: "I would have done more if I had not been thrown from my milk-wagon and run over, having two ribs dislocated, and one cracked. But I am better now." Such a spirit as that deserves to succeed, and it will succeed, whether it raises the one thousand dollars or not. There is success in the very attempt, in the elements that go into character building. May the dear Lord give her the success that she longs for.