Brother D. F. Tarr reports from Buffelsfontein, South Africa, seventeen adults who had decided to obey the truth.
A church of twenty-one active members was organized at Paonia, Colorado, by Brother W. F. Kennedy recently.
The South African Missionary records the death of Elder William Haupt, a faithful, devoted laborer in that field.
There is a bill before the Senate in Peru to grant entire religious liberty. If it passes, this will be a great help to Protestants throughout the country, our own people included.
Brother Sutton, a canvasser in Iowa near Mount Pleasant, organized a Sabbath-school near his home not long ago, and recently six of the members took their stand for Christ. They will unite with the Mount Pleasant church.
A good old sister, Lydia M. Smith, of Loveland, Colorado, seventy-six years of age, writes that she has read the Bible through four times in less than three years. She reads four chapters daily, and feels that she would miss a great deal if she did not read every day.
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The Methodist Episcopal Church sent during the year 1909 $300,000 to Africa for missions. This is good. Much more doubtless is needed — not only money but men.
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The financial report of our Mountain View church was rendered at a recent meeting; from which we take the following items: Our entire list membership is 239, which includes many non-resident members. The resident membership does not exceed 200. From that 200 was received in tithe, $5,347.52. Many of these are non-wage-13earners, for there is a goodly membership of children and young people who are attending school. The average tithe for the resident membership is $26.75. In addition to this there were paid for missions — home and foreign — church school, and various needy enterprises, $5,000 more, making the whole amount over ten thousand dollars. There was paid directly to foreign missions over $683 in the three yearly offerings, $1,200 in all to foreign missions. The last annual offering to missions amounted to $294, as against $160 the year before.
Work To-day. — When Jesus calls men to His service, it is not to work next week, or to-morrow. It is, “Go work to-day in My vineyard.” “Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” Then, brother, sister, go to work now. Leave the selfish pleasure, the selfish pursuit of gain, the selfish dignity, and work for souls to-day, now. Those needing help may be in your own household, may be your own neighbors, your own relatives. Help them to-day. Speak the helpful word, do the helpful deed, now.