Decline of Missions by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 8, 1864

Decline of Missions.

By Editor

At the late anniversary of Madison University, Mrs. Vinton of the Karen mission gave a very touching and saddening account of foreign missions. Referring to the anticipated Baptist mission jubilee, she exclaimed,

"A jubilee for what? Because our missionary zeal is decaying? Because nine missionary stations once occupied with pre-eminent success, are nearly or entirely deserted, while the Puseyites and the Jesuits are taking the place of the Baptist missionaries?" and, we will add—the temporal millennium is just upon us. Does orthodoxy believe it?