A Lecture on Foreign Missions Given in Brooklyn, N. Y.
By Archer V. Cotton
THROUGH the courtesy of the Mission Board, I compiled an assortment of views of our foreign missions, from which I had made a set of stereopticon slides, about one hundred forty in all, nicely colored. During our tent-meetings this summer, these I advertised as "A Trip Around the World Among the Seventh-day Adventist Mission Stations." I first showed maps of the conferences, mission fields, and stations, following each with the views upon the respective fields, thus getting before the audience in a comprehensive way the extent of the work. I divided the lecture into two parts. I have found it not only to be an excellent drawing feature to our meetings, but it impresses on the minds of the people, in a very tangible, yet simple way, that the advent movement is not merely local in extent, but is world-wide, and a fulfilment of prophecy. It shows the third angel's message is progressive, and that Seventh-day Adventists are a live people. It produces an excellent feeling, and I believe is of enduring benefit.