"What the Young People's Work Has Done for Me"
ACTIVE work in our Young People's Missionary Volunteer organization has been a source of great spiritual help to me. I have experienced a keen interest in Bible study, and have found special help and strength in our consecration services and prayer bands. Personal work for others, with its mutual benefits, has been a direct result of this close association and communion together with the Father of all. I owe much of my interest in and zeal for missions to the studies and stirring talks given in connection with our young people's work. A realization of the enormity of the work to be done and the self-denial and self-sacrifice of the workers, has created in my heart a desire to deny self and to "send" where I can not "go." HELEN N. RICE,
Sanitarium, Cal. The work of the young people's society brings to those who take part in it the greatest problem of Christian life. How can we make our society a living agent for saving souls from the sin of the world and for spreading beyond our homes the light of the message? That is the question we face. It is more difficult to solve than crossing the Alps. It is this question that confronts the young people's society, that humbles me, that leads me to bow before the only God, the only Source of strength, for the solution of this great need. HALSEY RINE,
P. U. College, St. Helena, Cal. It has done for me what it has done for so many of our young people,—made me a part of God's work. The work which the young people have taken upon themselves to do, as a society under the direction of the church, has brought them into that relation to the church which they should occupy; it has made them a part of the church. Before, they "belonged to the church;" now, they are a part of the church. Then, they were a burden to the church; now, they help to bear the burden. Then, they were the anxiety of the church; now, they are learning to be anxious for others. To my mind, this is the best result of the organization of the young people. The church is God's organized representative on the earth; to be an active part of that representative of God is the greatest thing in the world. Every true church is a working body; every true member of the church is a working individual; if all the members of the church, young and old, are true members, they all will be workers. This is the ideal condition; and it is the condition where the young people are organized for work, and do work. MAX HILL,
Sanitarium, Cal.