A Call for Volunteers by M. E. Kern

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Aug 21, 1913

A Call for Volunteers

By M. E. Kern

THE late General Conference was the greatest missionary conference ever held by Seventh-day Adventists. There were more representatives from foreign fields than at any previous meeting of this kind, and it was plainly evident that the missionary idea has taken deep hold upon our people. This is witnessed by the splendid showing of gifts to missions, and by the willingness of our workers to go to distant and difficult fields to labor. One hundred and fifty persons, in all, were recommended by the Conference to take up foreign work. It might seem that this large number would be all we could send out for some time to come. There are, however, just now several calls which the Mission Board has not been able to fill for want of suitable persons to go. Urgent calls for help will doubtless continue to press upon us; and we must prepare to do a greater work during the next four years in carrying this message to the ends of the earth than has ever yet been done.

To do this work we must have well-trained missionaries. Let our younger workers, and the young men and women in our schools, consider well the claims of foreign missions upon them. We need several more volunteers at this time,—ministers, teachers, Bible workers, nurses, and colporteurs. Those who are selected will be given a special training for their work in the Foreign Mission Seminary. Let those upon whom God is laying the burden of the great unoccupied fields in the regions beyond, and who can take up this work of preparation at once, write to the secretary of the Mission Board, or to the writer, stating their qualifications, experience, and desires, and giving references. Full information will be given them, and their desires will be carefully considered.

M. E. KERN.