A Present Need by William Ambrose Spicer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Aug 1, 1912

A Present Need

By William Ambrose Spicer

THE mission fields call insistently for evangelists. Young men are wanted, who have had experience in the conferences in preaching and teaching the message that wins souls and builds up Sabbath-keeping companies. Youth is a qualification in these particular calls, because there are languages to be learned. The Mission Board must send out this autumn ten or fifteen such workers; and a much larger number ought to be under provisional appointment, securing a few months of special training in readiness to go a little later.

Will not conference presidents look over the lists and report a few more names? Again and again they have done it; and the conferences are true as steel in sacrificing for the mission fields. We ask the churches to pray that God may indicate workers who should respond now, and fill their places with recruits who will keep the home work growing.

More young men of good experience in the truth and work, who have finished their ordinary school life, ought to be in the Foreign Mission Seminary this year, studying the calls with the Mission Board to find just the right place, and seeking the definite preparation for it, or in the short medical evangelistic course which Loma Linda provides.

The Lord's providence is commandingly and entreatingly manifested to us in the mission fields. In the new China just now hundreds of souls beyond the reach of our present staff are pressing into the light, and calling in vain for teachers. The Mission Board desires to keep in touch with workers who are waiting only to know that God calls them to go.

W. A. SPICER, Secretary.