Mission Study and Foreign Missions
CAREY, the cobbler, with a map of the world hanging on his shop wall, was the forerunner of Carey, the missionary statesman, laying the foundations of the kingdom of God in India. Once at a meeting of student volunteers, a young man declared with great earnestness, "Wo is me if I preach not the Gospel to the heathen." His friend exclaimed, "I know why he feels so. Over his bed hangs a chart with black squares representing 856,000,000 heathen. Any man sleeping with such a chart at the head of his bed must decide to be a foreign missionary or have a nightmare every night." His decision was the outgrowth of mission study. — S. J. Porter.