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Let those who would have a I want to hear each hour Thy voice, Jesus my crowned King ; Church 'Missionary happy new year, seek to honour God And to Thy Word implicitly and make all around them happy. My true allegiance bring, programmes Let them share the gifts of Provi- To serve with love's glad ministry, dence with those more needy, and To make the joyless sing. First Week bring to the Lord their offerings of Master, make these " wants " to be gratitude, their sin-offerings, and Unto fulfilment brought, A Year of Service their free-will offerings. And day by day unto Thyself Let us enter upon the new year Lead captive every thought. Opening! Exercises. Then shall at eventide, be praise Reports nf Labour. with a clean record. Let faults be For all that God hath wrought. " A Ha y New Year." corrected. Let bitterness and mal- —J. H. S., in Christian. A Ne Year's Petition." Plans f r Work. ice be uprooted. Let right triumph over wrong. Let envy and jealousy LEADER'S NOTE.—As this is the first between brethren be put away. Second Week meeting in the new year time could profit- Heartfelt, honest confession will ably he taken in planning for aggressive heal grave difficulties. Then, with Zealous of Good Works work. We are blessed with an abundance of good literature with which to work and the love of God in the soul, there Opening Exercises. plans adapted to every circumstance under may flow from sincere lips the Reports of Labour. which we may be placed. Although written greeting, " I wish you a happy New " Earnestness." some years ago, the reading, "A Happy New Year." " An Outlet for Our Zeal." Year, seems particularly applicable now. Plans for Work. Let us do all in our power to make this We may not live to see another new year a happy one to some who are now year. Shall we not seek to improve LEADER'S NOTE.—After considering the groping in darkness, " having no hope and the little time allotted us ? Will not need of earnestness in the work of the Lord without God in the world." the church of Christ turn from their and the good work that has been accom- backslidings ? Will they not cast plished through our literature, would it not he well to make sure that all the members A Happy New Year aside their idols, repent of their love present are supplied with the Signs of the of the world, overcome their selfish Times for missionary purposes. We should ON every hand are pale faces, greed, and open the door of the heart plan to do even more during this new year brows furrowed with pain and care, with our pioneer missionary paper than ever to bid the Saviour welcome? May before. or forms bowed with age. Wher- the beginning of this year be a time ever we turn may he seen the garb when Christ shall come in among of mourning. The suffering, the us, and say, " Peace be unto you." Earnestness careworn, and the aged can no longer MRS. E. G. WHITE. be merry. In many a household 1. IN what is Christ an example there is a vacant chair ; a beloved to us ? Ps. 69 : 9. child, a husband and father, whose 2. What effect will our zeal have presence gladdened the last Christmas A New Year's Petition upon others? 2 Cor. 9 : 2. and New year festivity, is gone from 3. How much of the time should the circle. A merry Christmas seems Master, I want this year to be we be zealous? Gal. 4: 18. a mockery to that bereaved family. A year of Thy control, 4. Of what should we be zealous ? To know the lordship of Thy love . But whatever the cares and sor- Triumphant in my soul. Titus 2 : 14. rows of life, whatever the mistakes And all my longings, all my cares, 5. What should be the burden and errors of the past, the " Happy Upon that love to roll. of our hearts ? Acts 26 : 29 ; Rom. New Year," when uttered as an 10 : 1. I want to know Thy fellowship 6. expression of love or respect, falls More fully all the way, For what should we earnestly pleasantly upon the ear. And yet, And in its bright reality contend ? Jude 3. are not these kindly wishes often To walk with Thee each day, 7. Why is there special need for forgotten with the utterance ? How Losing my life, that in Thy life, earnestness at the present time? often we fail to carry their import God's will may be my stay. " We have no time to lose. The into the daily life, and thus to aid in I want to prove, as Spirit taught, end is near. The passage from place their fulfilment. The New Year's The power of Jesus' name, to place to spread the truth will greeting is frequently uttered by in- In it to pray, to speak, to work, soon be hedged with dangers on In it each promise claim. sincere lips, from hearts that would As conquerors did, who through His the right hand and on the left. not forego one selfish gratification in blood, Everything will be placed to obstruct order to make others happy. Once fought and overcame. the way of the Lord's messengers, 2 MISSIONARY LEADER JANUARY, 1917 so that they will not be able to do your positive stand against Modern- accept the truths contained in " Great that which it is possible for them ism, Evolution, Christian Science, Controversy," " Daniel and the Reve- to do now. We must look our Spiritualism, etc., and also your lation," and other books I sent them, work fairly in the face, and advance unique knowledge of our portentious although they read them all through. as fast as possible in aggressive times." But they are not only willing, but warfare. From the light given me " A gentleman who is a railroad anxious to have me send them the of God I know that the powers man, came into our office yesterday Signs of the Times. Through its of darkness are working with intense afternoon and asked if we had the instrumentality my dear mother has energy from beneath, and with little book, "The World's Crisis." He lost her prejudice and has almost stealthy tread Satan is advancing said he had seen it advertised, and accepted the entire message. My to take those who are now asleep, desired to read it. I asked him if he father, who is a dentist, is fast losing as a wolf taking his prey. We was interested in these things, and his prejudice, and we have good talks have warnings now which we may he said he certainly was. Then he on all-points of present truth when I give, a work now which we may do ; told me how lie became acquainted visit him. His being on the official but soon it will be more difficult with the Signs. He stepped off his board of a large Methodist church than we can imagine. God help us train, and there on the ground lay and an active worker in that church to keep in the channel of light, the front cover of the Signs. He makes it harder for him to accept the to work with our eyes fastened on thought the picture was pretty, and message than it otherwise would be." Jesus our Leader, and patiently, picked it up to see what it was. He " A well-educated man in com- perseveringly, press on to gain the found the address and ordered the munication with one of his friends, victory."—" Testimonies for the paper, and from that' time he has mentioned the Signs of the Times, in Church," Vol. VI, page 22. been taking every number." the following language : 8. What conditions do we now see " Some good person, or persons, " I think it is good of you to write that are beginning to make our work have been so kind and thoughtful as to me as you have, and to send that more difficult and dangerous ? to send me the Signs of the Times, a instructive paper, the Signs of the religious newspaper, having for its Times, So frequently. As little drops object the moral and spiritual inter- of water wear away the hardest An Outlet for Our Zeal est of the people and the glory of the rocks, so has the influence of the Master. I read it carefully, find Signs of the Times effected a change Quit literature is undoubtedly much to commend, and am bene- in my outlook on life and on things having a telling influence wherever fited thereby. It makes no com- in general. I find my views have it is being circulated. It is changing promise with sin. It stands for been modified somewhat, that I am people's minds, and leading them to purity in life, and would have all more tolerant toward those whose God. Among other literature the united in Christian fellowship and opinions do not coincide with my Signs of the Times has a very useful love. These are high ideals. We own .'" place in our soul-winning work. The must stand for nothing less." " My husband called to leave a following are a few of the many " How I wish all people under- paper several times at the home of experiences met in the use of this stood how valuable the Signs of the some neighbours, and one day he was' paper: Times really is ! I have always felt invited in to talk with them. He For some time I have been grateful to the person who sent me found the man was very well in- receiving the Signs of the Times, the first copies I ever saw. I have formed, a Bible student, and a mem- but did not know to 'whom to give received rnorecomfort and satisfaction ber of the Baptist Church. His wife credit for sending me this most from this paper than from any other was a Methodist. Bible studies excellent periodical. I have enjoyed I ever read, and I never like to let followed, and now they are both re- reading it very much, and shall, I am my subscription run out. It has of joicing in the truth. As soon as the sure, continue to do so." necessity done so lately, but I hope wife accepted the truth, she sub- " I have received a few copies of it may never do so again." scribed for the Signs of the Times for the Signs of the Times from a friend, " I must tell You what a help the three of her friends. In nearly every and am very much interested in the Signs of the Times has been to me in place where we have held studies, the good, sound, clear, suggestive reading getting the truth to my dear parents. Signs has opened the way, and the they contain. I am also doubly When I accepted the truth, some people have become so interested in pleased to find that the writers of years ago, I wanted to get my father i,t that they often subscribe for it, the various articles fully recognize the and mother into the message as soon and sometimes have it sent to their power and inspiration of the Bible. as possible. I tried to be tactful in friends as well." The articles are wholesome and sending them tracts and letters, but " You may be interested to learn refreshing in these troublous times of before very long they became very that one of our sisters has six adults covetousness and inordinate am- much opposed to any mention of the keeping the Sabbath through sending bitions, as well as of unholy desires truth. I visited them several times them the Signs. They have never for wealth, pleasures, and property." during the next few years, but al- met one of our ministers." " I have received, free of charge, -though they were more than glad to several copies of your weekly Signs have me visit them, they requested of the Times. I think that an Ad- several times that I desist from both ventist friend sends them. I am talking and writing about Advent- " IF most people could trust God profoundly thankful for the paper, ism,' as they style anything that per- with to-morrow, they might tranquil- since I value it highly. I admire tains to the message. They did not ize their souls and rest to-day."

JANUARY, 1917 MISSIONARY LEADER 3

Third Week " And when they were come to The words of'Jesus in_ our not letting our left .tai Reporting Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and what our right handl:Joe.. irie- Opening Exercises. elders, and they declared all things times used as a reasoacii' noMi. 'vac " Lesson on Reporting." that God had done with them. . . . ing missionary work, but41-1.ed.o cot: Reports of Labour from Members. Plans for Work. " Then all the multitude kept so apply, as the following tateknents silence, and gave audience to Barn- will show : . • LEADER'S NOTE.—This lesson on re- abus and Paul, declaring what " With many, the left!lifInd, does porting will be made much more impressive miracles and wonders God had not.. know whatthe•rightl— ;4' does, . by announcing at the close of the reading wrought among the Gentiles by for the right band": do* : pg- that questions will be asked, and then put- ting to the members the questions that them." Acts 15 : 442. wOrthy of the notice of the. ii Ii follow the reading. This would be an op- " And when he had saluted them, This lesson of Jesus to His dis portune time to urge all the members to he declared particularly what things was to rebuke those who•wisi , faithfully report all work done from week God had wrought among the Gentiles' :ereceive glory of,,.'!"ffien. . . . ' I wits - ••' to week that the showing of the society may be a true one. by his ministry. And when they shown that thi'4). g•aripture does not heard it, they glorified God." Acts apply to those who :have the cause 21 : 19, 20 (first clause). of God at heart; and use their means Lesson on Reporting These texts show us another humbly to advance it.----" Testimonies " A GOOD report maketh the bones reason for reporting our work. When for the Church," 'Vol. I, pag093. ' fat." Prov. 15: 30. At first read- we do this in the same spirit that " When tliol*est alnts," He said, ing this may seem to be a figurative Paul reported his work, those who " let not thy left hid know What statement, but a recent medical dis- hear us will glorify God. When, tiv right hand i`'''.,d..24h : that thine covery proves it to be a statement of therefore, we do not report, we rob alms may he' in '-secret : and thy fact. It has been found that it is in God of the glory He should receive. Father which seeth in secret Himself the marrow of the bones that the red We are not left without instruction shall reward thee openly." In.tilese .. corpuscles of the blood are formed. in regard to this question of report- words Jesus did not teach that eets. A good supply of these are necessary ing in connection with the work of of kindness should always be" kept- to the health of the body. If there- the third angel's message. secret. Paul,-the apoStle, Writing by. fore, good reports make the bones " Let all have a part to act. Train the Hol- nirit; did not• conceal the: fat, or, in other words, make the the young to do what is appointed geneemis self-sacrifice of the :\ race-. marrow of the bones fat and in good them, and from week to week let donian Cbri.stians, but told of the' condition, so that the body is built them bring their reports to the mis- gralce that'Xhrist • had wrought in up, we have a good reason why we sionary meeting, telling what they them, and thus' others were imbued should report the home missionary have experienced, and through the with the same spirit. He also wrote 'h. • work we do and its results. grace of Christ what success has been to the church at Corinth; and said, Our guide, the Bible, is full of re- theirs. If such reports were brought " Your zeal bath stirred • up very ports of work. The first chapter of in by consecrated workers, the mis- many.". . • Genesis is God's report of His work sionary meetings would not be dull "Christ's own words make His of creation. The Lord reported this and tedious. They would - he full of meanings plain,--that in •act.Of for our instruction and upbuilding, interest, and there would be no tack charity, the aim should not .beo and He Himself set us the example in attendance."—" Testimonies for secure .praise ari tri honour. fromr men. •. of reporting for the benefit of others. the Church," Vol. VI, page 436. Ie4Lgndlipesf . dver ti-ompt§..an • .'. In Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, " Those who have united with the effort.:1ati display. ' ..These who degi;e•.. and Deuteronomy, Moses reported Lord in the covenant of service are .words of praise and flattery, and feed his work. All through the Old under bonds to unite with him in the -upon them; as a sweet mforsel, aye . . Testament we find men of God tell- great, grand work of soul saving.. Christians in name only. ...•• • ing of the work the Lord had done Let church members, during the week,' " By their rood wiiirks, :Christle... '.:,!.... through them. act their part faithfully, and on:the followers are to hriArglory, mt. to' ;:. .. The angel who was commissioned Sabbath relate their experience. The •themselvls, . hut- toss H1throUgb •• ' ;. ... to set a mark upon God's people re- meeting will then be as meat in due whose _grace and .power t eyir • ...,,,..,..., ported his work. Eze. 9 : 11. season, bringing to all present new. yitufoht. It is, tl.irof t •;• dy . ••• • . " And the apostles, when they life and fresh vigour."—" Testimv,ies-,:...,,,, that e'verYi4OOd • :" .i*Qcbm- . ;••• -; . were returned, told Him all that they for the Church," Vol. VII, page :IP,. .• - phi-ied., and - the spirit in Ti• to . .- • had done." Luke 9 : 10. " Let those who gain such expg,ri- gloriiy, i not .the i•eceiy fi::'gle • " And the apostles gathered them- ences in working for the Lord write giver. •iiWrlien the lig14 A. lg.:Ts • selves together unto Jesus, and told an account of it for our papers tVt- shining in the soul; t • 44f1.••bik Him all things, both what they had others may be encouraged. . . tilled . wit h praise) atist .;•••giriblig. ' done, and what they had taught." These reports should find a place in '• to God. Your praysi,g,:'IrOafil..• rtar-: , Mark 6 : 30. our papers ; for they are far-reaching formance• 'of duty, yottr7*ibvii•IhnotEli " And when they were come, and in their influence. They will be as your self-denial, will ndt be the therm?:,,. ' of youe' though had gathered the church together, sweet fragrance in the church, a OE.' 60TIVOrlitii0/1:, 11. ' . . . they rehearsed all that God had done savour of life unto life. Thus it is "Jesus will be. ,bei • with them, and how He had opened seen that God works with those who hidde anti Ch hu ill ittilifie'ar the door of faith unto the Gentiles." co-operate with Him ."—"Testimonies in all,iL-`.= That r, :the IVIent •'401,:,•••• Acts 14 : 27. for the Church," Vol..411.•Y9age-836.•• . okBlissing," .pa .07,1.4.Z. • • " 4 MISSIONARY LEADER JANUARY, 1917 ••• . . ,a• ' ` - 11i a.4ClitiOn. to giving glory to God, Fourth Week wretched, and the despondent."— brin: Myestrength and encouragement " Testimonies for the Church," Vol. telt , :,%4•143 hear them, making the Soul-Saving IX, pages 30, 31. nisi ivy meetings of intense in- Opening Exercises. Not the Great Things tkeist, Strid increasing the attendance, Reports of Labour. our reports are needed in order that " Labouring for Souls." The spirit of Christ is the spirit our work may .he properly managed. Plans for Work. of labour. It is not the great things We have a world to warn, and we do that count ; for Matt. 10 : 42 but a .**ShOrt time in which to do LEADER'S NOTE. —It will be seen that says, " Whosoever shall give to drink the "GWRIi: HoW important it is, most of the matter in "Labouring for unto one of these little ones a cup of . then, that our efforts should be so Souls" is compiled from the Testimonies. cold water only in the name of a tdirected that they may accomplish There are some very striking statements and precious promises in these quotations. disciple, verily I say unto you, he ;, the dlost possible good! When we The leader should emphasize these, some of shall in no wise lose his reward." do not know what is being done, we which we have put in italics. We have We are not labouring for worldly cannot plan intelligently for what summarized the various ways of soul- honour, but to save souls. Little do winning mentioned. If these could be remains to be done.. We could placed on the blackboard beforehand and we realize that just a word spoken never have built up our Sabbath- attention called to them as they are at the right time, in the right way, school work to the place it occupies brought out one by one in the reading it may change the course of a life. Our in the cause of present truth without would help to impress them. labour may not be appreciated; Christ its reporting system. This is true of was not appreciated. every departnient of the work, for " He was in the world, and the each has a reporting system which Labouring for Souls world was made by Him, and the enables the leaders to know what is world knew Him not." John 1 : 10. being done, and to plan intelligently "I MUST work the works of Him The underlying principle of it all was for advance work. that sent Me, while it is day : the love, the love of souls ; that was the • SY believe these reasons will be night cometh, when no man can grand object. " But those who do suffiCilmt to make every Sabbath- work." John 9 : 4. Christ came not impart the light they have re- keeper not, only willing, but anxious into this world to do His work. He ceived will one day realize that they •to report his home missionary work ; had a special work to do and a have sustained a fearful loss. . . . for every loyal Sabbath-keeper de- definite time in which to do it. Church members are to put forth the sires to glorify God and hasten the During the years that He lived here continuous, persevering efforts that finishing,of the work the Lord has in the flesh; He was fitting His He put forth. They are to be ever given us to do. disciples for their work. ready to spring into action in obed- " For the Son of man is as a man ience to the Master's commands. Questions taking a far journey, who left His Wherever we see work waiting to be 1. Mention some instances in the Bible house, and gave authority to His done, we are to take it up and do it, where work was reported ? servants, and to every man his constantly looking unto Jesus. If 2. If we report our work in the right work." Mark 13 : 34. Here is our church members would heed this spirit, what effect will it have upon those brought out the thought that every instruction, hundreds of souls would who hear us? 8'. What effect will good reports have follower of Christ has a definite be won to Jesus. If every church upon the missionary meetings? work ; not one is excused. " God member were a living missionary, A. In what other wad besides .giving expects personal service from every the gospel would speedily be pro- ,them in the ..missionary meetings should one to whom He has intrusted a claimed in all countries, to all good missionary experiences be reported? knowledge of the truth for this time. [The Record is always open to such re- peoples, nations, and tongues. . . . ports and we are glad to receive them.] 1\1",s4 .11 ran gr as miaainn Ara tto " Many of Go-d's pooplo aro to go 5. To what is the injunction not to let foreign lands, but all can be home forth with our publications into • our left hand know what the right hand missionaries in their families and places where the third angel's mes- does applied in Spirit of Prophecy? 6. For what °tile remen are our reports neighbourhoods. There are many sage has never been proclaimed. Our needed? ways in which church members may books are to be published in many •• giVe the message to those around different languages. With these 'We *see frOw:this. lesson that tlIpre arc them. One of the most successful is books, humble, faithful men are to go five Sobilkeisoftefor reporting our. wqrk•:' •• by.living' helpful, unselfish Christian 1. To q' lory to God. out as colporteur-evangelists, begring 2. To'e age tiose who 14r.them. lima. Those who are fighting the the truth to those who would other- 3, .To makkezthe ission&ryeineetillog in- battle of life at great odds may he wise never be enlightened. . . . teresting. . . IP refreshed and strengthened by little Those who have long known the •'4:: To .itidrease. the •,attendanciN at the atlentions which cost nothing. in,issionary1 :meeting.• • truth need to seek the Lord most s. TO enable -us to 'know how the mes- Kindly words simply spoken, little earnestly, that their hearts may be •sagt 'is going, sid to."plin for its further attentions simply bestowed, will filled with a determination to work eNtedsion ' • •• sweep away the clouds of temptation for their neighbours."—"Testimonies if • • and doubt that gather over the soul. for the Church," Vol. IX, pages 32-34. , . • • , . . . At every work of mercy, every How We May Best Succeed •: ',.' D,N4To. prav,• Lord, use me ' work of love, angels of God are Goitl.,js using you the utmost of present. . . . Those who share in How may we best succeed in Hii power: pray•r er, ' Lord, make Christ's glory must share also in His labouring for souls ? Let nothing be • me usable','"`'. ''''' ministry, helping the weak, the done through strife or vainglory; but . • • JANUARY, 1917 MISSIONARY LEADER in lowliness of mind let each esteem and shall be satisfied." The joy of Joy for the New Year other better than themselves." Phil. Christ will be in looking upon the re- Joy a Fruit of the Spirit 2 : 3. " It is not learned, eloquent deemed host in the kingdom, whom speakers that are needed now, but He has been the means of saving. As WE step into a new year, let humble, Christlike men and women, If we enter into the joy of Christ, we us carry with us the knowledge that who have learned from Jesus of shall have to be the means of the joy belongs to us as truly as blossoms Nazareth to be meek and lowly, and salvation of some souls. belong to flowers, and nuts to the who, trusting in His strength, will go GEO. 0. STATES. trees in autumn. It is a part of the forth into the highways and hedges fruit of life when the days are taken to give the invitation, 'Come ; for all at their best. things are now ready.' Luke 14 : 17. If the flowers do not bear blossoms A Summary of How We Are to and the trees do not yield nuts, we Work for Souls " Visit your neighbours, and show inquire into the causes. We say, an interest in the salvation of their 1. LIVING helpful, unselfish: " Something is wrong." We dig souls. Arouse every spiritual energy Christian lives. about the roots, we spray the leaves, to action. Tell those whom you we use fertilizers, and we call in the visit that the end of all things is at 2. In kindly words and little at- neighbours to counsel over the matter. hand. The Lord Jesus Christ will tentions. We are disturbed because the flower open the door of their hearts, and 3. Visiting our neighbours and or the tree is not fulfilling the purpose will make upon their minds lasting showing an interest in the salvation of its existence. impressions."—" Testimonies for the of their souls. It must likewise be so with life's Church," Vol. IX, pages 36-38. 4. Going forth with our publica- products. If joy fails to be evident In order to win souls to Christ we tions. in our daily bearing, this should be must have the truth of God in the 5. Working for all with whom we the occasion for serious inquiry. heart. come in contact. Paul, writing to the Philippians, said, " Rejoice in the Lord always." Did " Sanctify the Lord in your hearts : Results of such labour : " Those it ever occur to you from what place and be ready always to give an who give their lives to Christlike min- Paul wrote those words? It was answer to every man that asketh you istry know the meaning of true happi- from a Roman prison. He was under a reason of the hope that is in you ness." with meekness and fear." 1 Peter the guard of a Roman soldier. 3 : 15. We must be imbued with the Should we have felt like rejoicing Spirit of Christ. Then as we go under those circumstances ? If we among those that are out of Christ, should not, why did Paul feel so ? O what an influence we shall exert ! 112issionarp Volun= Was it not that life to him meant the higher, better, truer life that bears The highest missionary work we the fruit of joy ? can engage in is to visit those who are teer Programmes Not Dependent upon Circumstances out of Christ, and with hearts imbued. with the Spirit of Christ, tell them, First Week Most people think that outward that the end of all things is near. How to Have a Happy surroundings determine the degree of " Remember that the Lord Jesus is our joy, but such is not the case. the Master Worker. He waters the New Year Jesus taught that a man's life con- seed sown. He puts into your minds Hymn. sists not in the abundance of the words that will reach hearts. Ex- Prayer. things which he possesses. Riches Secretary's Report. and honour do not contribute to joy. pect that God will sustain the Scripture Drill: John 6 : 38. consecrated, unselfish worker. Reports of Labour. It is evident that those who have the Obedience, childlike faith, trust in Hymn. largest wealth and carry the greatest God, these will bring peace and joy. "Joy for the New Year." honours are not the most joyful Poem : "My New Diary." persons. One of the world's wealthi- Work disinterestedly, lovingly, pat- "My New Year's Resolve." iently, for all with whom you are Five-minute Exercise : Questions on "Life est men, when asked if his great brought in contact. Show no im- Sketches" for week ending Janu- possessions made him happy, said, patience. Utter not one unkind ary 6. What ! Me happy 7—No ! " Joy word. Let the love of Christ be in Hymn. would be a cheap thing if money your hearts, the law of kindness on could buy it. Its possession is LEADER'S NOTE-If "Joy for the New your lips. . . . Year " is divided into four parts as indi- beyond the reach of gold. Joy is " Those who give their lives to cated by the sub-heads and these parts given found growing like a luxuriant Christlike ministry know the meaning as talks, it should prove an instructive and plant in the homes of the poor. It interesting exercise. Attention should be beams from countenances with of true happiness. Their interests called by the leader in the first meeting and their prayers reach far beyond of the new year to the observance of the overflowing expression beyond the self. They themselves are growing morning watch, and the new Reading Course terms of language. It is affected as they try to help others."—" Testi- books, " Life Sketches" and " Christ Our by neither poverty nor riches. monies for the Church," Vol. IX, Saviour," and to the new Bible Study on The Holy Spirit is the joy breeder, the Divinity of Christ—a most vital subject. pages 41, 42. Our activities along all lines of service and whoever entertains this divine The time will soon come when " He should be kept up through the year, if we guest will have joy, whether he be shall see of the travail of His soul, wish to experience the joy of service. rich or poor, whether he be known 6 MISSIONARY LEADER JANUARY, 1917 around the world or unknown beyond It feeds on entertainment. It is angel's conception when he an- a small circle of obscure friends. like the display of fireworks, which nounced, "I bring you good tidings The soul reaches for the joyful attracts great attention for a little of great joy which shall be to all experiences of life, even as plants in while. It is crowded with laughter people: for there is horn to you this the dark send out their pale, tender and hurrahs. But when the enter- day in the city of David a Saviour, leaves toward the cracks in the wall tainment is over, the excitement dies who is Christ the Lord." The secret through which comes the light. We out, and that indescribable ennui of joy lies in the fact of the person- have seen that often in the cellars of steals over the soul. There is more ality of Christ. From Him comes our homes. Has it no lesson ? The for us in the shining of stars than in every good to us. We in turn bear plant belongs out of doors where the the display of fireworks. The stars it to others and become faint echoes sun shines. And the soul belongs were eclipsed for a time ; but when of Christ. in the outdoors of freedom where all the display of the fireworks was over, Christianity presents to every soul the attributes of God can grow in it. the stars were still steadfastly vast and unused realms. And yet The light of the sun belongs to the shining. The fireworks are super- joy seems the most unused of all the plant. The joy of God belongs to ficial. The stars are permanent. fields of human life. Too many live the soul. As the plant is weak and It is a fair comparison between along the shores of the experiences of pale without the sunlight, the soul is worldly excitement and spiritual joy. others. They dare not plunge in for weak and inexpressive without the There is in the former a kind of themselves,consequently they become joy of God. empty laughter and effervescence of indifferent and Christianity is to Joy belongs in the heart of the spirit ; while in the latter the laugh- them only a form. They worry, young as well as of the aged. It ter is tempered with love, and joy chafe against conditions, and some- belongs to all, and if we do not begin revels in riches which it has no fear times lose faith. The wreck is a to produce it when we are young, it of exhausting. Joy gives poise that tragedy. It need not be so. We will not be with us when we become develops symmetry and beauty of have to practise all things in which old. character. we desire proficiency. I hear now It is pathetic to see the abnormal There is a power in joy that makes the touch of unskilled fingers upon Christian whose face does not yield the man who practises it worth the piano. Ten years of practice, readily to smiles, but looks as if he more to his employer and to society and those fingers will indicate skill. were already dead to things worth than the man to whom it is an With unskilled attempts we practise possessing. I sat in the street car unknown quality. It puts a new at the principles of joy, but in years yesterday and looked into the face of asset in a man's life. He becomes to come joy will be as natural to us each in the long row that sat opposite at once more desirable as a companion as music is to the musician. The me. Most of them were well dressed, and a citizen. Joy lightens loads price of attainment is personal com- and some were handsome, but there and makes work easier. Joy cannot mitment to Christ, " who for the joy was hardly a face there that I should exist of itself. There must be a that was set before Him endured the like to have. There were too many foundation as deep and as wide as cross." Let us he joyful if ten lines of care, of fear, of greed,— Christ, upon which the soul rests thousand things oppose us. Let us faces on which histories of shrewd, with absolute safety. At the same put laughter in our voices and smiles grasping power were written. It time, there must be an expectation upon our faces. Let us hold to joy seemed as if the song of joy had relative to attaining the highest ideals, as we do to honesty, industry, and neverechoed through these souls. In which are visible to us only in the integrity. Let us make it the com- that more than half an hour's ride, character of Christ. Here is at once panion of every other virtue. Then I saw on no face scarcely one sweep a world in itself—new principles, new our lives will he filled with songs, of joy that told of the inexhaustible laws, new ideals. These foundations and we shall help a weary world into peace that overflows the heart when must necessarily have in them im- the great fellowship of God.—Peter joy is the fruit of the days. I felt a mortality, for the vision of joy sweeps Ainslie, D.D., in Young People's protest rising within me against the both this world and the world to Weekly. grim care that had settled upon those come. faces. It did not belong there any more than barnacles belong on the The Secret of Joy My New Diary sides of ships, or rust on the iron wheels of the railway. Anxiety is If a man sets out to be joyful, he Your pages all are fair and pure and white ; rust. Nothing will take it off but will never attain to it. If he sets Not one deed yet recorded; and I fain the oil of joy. out to know God as revealed in Christ, Would keep you thus,—not empty, but recognizing that knowledge of God is made bright It is proper to scour our cooking With records of brave deeds and victories utensils and polish the floors and practising His principles, then joy In all life's struggles. Such a serious furniture. But what about life? will come as blossoms crown the thing Some heroic scouring needs to be green stems of flowers. The petals It is to live ! For we may not turn back of the blossom were in the green To live again or change one faulty day. done, and done persistently, until joy Once gone, its record stands. Nor can in the countenance shall succeed stem, unseen and unknown. By the we make grim care upon the face. law of nature they burst forth. It One small correction, or undo one deed. is so when the roots of our spirituality Nor is this all ; for not in 'words alone Excitement Not Joy are in Christ. The spiritual law Is record kept of days that pass away; But in the very lives of those I love There is an excitement and exhila- operates, and joy becomes the ex- Some influence will remain of deeds of ration that is sometimes called joy. perience of the soul. This was the mine. JANUARY, 1917 MISSIONARY LEADER

Sad, sad 'twould be if I should, careless, Second Week magistrate of Cape Haitien ordered leave the streets to be cleaned two years Some influence unholy which should work Haiti, West Indies To mar or spoil some other life. And yet— ago, and the remains of hundreds of I cannot live my life alone. 0 Christ, Hymn. dead bodies of men and animals killed Come Thou into my life, and live in me Prayer. in revolutions were found in the Thine own sweet life of purity, and thus Secretary's Report. Scripture Drill : John 17 : 5. rubbish heaps and a scourge of fever Assure to me a happy year, with deeds raged for many months. Which I may contemplate with joy Reports of Labour. When these, with all the rest of life's Hymn. The better class of Haitians dress short days, " Haiti, and Its People." well. The women wear gowns im- " Missionary History of Haiti." Have been recorded, and the diaries closed. ported from Paris. This class is LILLIAN S. CONNERLY. " Our Work in Haiti." " Miraculous Deliverances." greatly in the minority, however. " An Example of Devotion." Most of the people wear blue denim Five-minute Exercise: Questions on " Life or cheap calico, when they can afford My New Year's Resolve Sketches " for week ending Jan- uary 13. it. In the interior very few persons I WONDER if all our young people Hymn. wear any clothing. appreciate the value of " My New The language spoken is Creole, a Year's Resolve " that has appeared LEADER'S NOTE.—A map should be very poor French. A few speak good in the Morning Watch Calendar? It used with this programme. If the parts French, and some speak English. are given out beforehand and the matter The religion of the country is reads as follows : presented in talks, it will add to the interest. RESOLVED, That I will this year en- Roman Catholic, there being seven deavour, by God's help, to live a simple, thousand French priests and nuns sincere, and active Christian life ; repelling Haiti, and Its People employed in the island. Here church promptly every thought of discontent, dis- and state are united. There are a couragement, impurity, and self-seeking; cultivating cheerfulness, magnanimity, ALTHOUGH at a comparatively few Wesleyans, Baptists, and charity, and the habit of holy silence ; short distance from the United States, Seventh-day Adventists, however. exercising economy in expenditure, careful- Haiti is very little known, being The only exports are logwood, coffee, ness in conversation, diligence in appointed commonly called " Mysterious Haiti." and honey. Many tropical fruits service, fidelity to every trust, and a child- like trust in God ; I will make an earnest It is one of the group of islands abound. The soil is very rich, but effort to spend some tune in Bible study and known as the Greater Antilles, lying the natives do no manner of labour prayer every day, and to make some personal between Cuba and Porto Rico. to cultivate it, living on the pro- effort to encourage or draw some one nearer The entire island, including Santa ducts which require no labour. to Christ at least once a week. Domingo, is 500 miles in length and Imported products are very high- In Venezuela, where our work is 180 miles in width. The island was priced, and consequently the foreign- just getting started, the little company discovered by Christopher Columbus ers are forced to live on the few appreciate it very much. Pastor S. on December 6, 1492, being the first varieties that can be obtained. A. Oberg, our missionary there, place at which he landed in his The climate of the country is de- writes: second search for India, and his lightful all the year round. There is "All are enjoying the texts of the remains are now in a mausoleum no need of fuel with which to keep calendar, and the resolution has in Santo Domingo City. The name warm. Snow has never been seen simply captivated us. Our leader of the island is said to have meant in on the tops of the highest mountains. said, by way of explanation of the native Indian language, " High —Selected. thoughts in it last Sabbath, that as Mountainous Land " ; but Columbus, a temptation came to him during the on discovering it, thought it re- week, he said to himself, No, that sembled Spain, and therefore gave Missionary History of Haiti is not what I resolved to do ; I have it the name of Hispaniola, or Little THE slaves of the West Indian resolved not to do that any more.' Spain. Santo Domingo was the plantations had heard little of His argument so impressed us that name by which the island was finally Christianity from the whites. When we all have decided to commit to known, but since the declaration of some, of St. Thomas, heard from a memory the resolution, taking a independence by the Haitians in passing stranger that the gospel was part every week, to be recited with 1804, the aboriginal name of Haiti for the black as well as the white, the memory verses until it has become has been adopted. they clapped their hands and asked a part of our natures." Few Haitian gentlemen will do how they were to learn it. A negro This company of Spanish Sabbath- any work aside from that of a from this group visited Europe, and keepers has set us an excellent government position ; therefore the met Count Zinzendorf, a leader of example. Let us take heed to this positions are fabulous in number. the Moravians. Interest in behalf resolution, if we have not already, The menial labour is done by the of this people was awakened, and and make it a part of our lives. women. They till the fields, and in 1732 two young Moravians set M. E. KERN. then walk from fifteen to twenty-five out for St. Thomas, and determined if miles every day to the city to sell necessary, to sell themselves as slaves their produce. in order to gain access to the slaves THE love of God must master the The streets of the cities have b.;en on the plantations. This was not world's attraction, or, if not, then neglected for centuries, and con- required, however. The work spread the soul is " like the troubled sea sequently they are full of rubbish, from island to island, and other when it cannot rest."—F. TV. Rob- debris, and filth, there being no sani- churches joined in the missionary ertson. tary system whatever. The present effort.—Selected. MISSIONARY LEADER JANUARY, 1917

' Our Work in Haiti An Example of Devotion strong statement ; but 1 believe it to be a true one. The one who will not OUR work in Haiti dates from WHILE the revolution was raging, learn to wait never accomplishes his thirty-five years ago, when a Jamai- it was impossible for our brethren to purpose. can and his wife who resided in travel from place to place ; so when In a team of horses that I used to Cape Haitien received the message the time came for the quarterly re- drive, was one that was very fretful. through literature which was sent ports to be sent in, a young girl In the morning he was ahead, and out by Pastor Loughborough while he volunteered to take them to Cape we had to adjust our reins to hold was in England. He gave it to the Haitien. She started from a town him back. Before night he was be- captain of a sailing vessel for dis- seventy-five miles in the interior,— hind, and we had to adjust our reins tribution, and it found its way to and gathered up the reports as she to keep the team working evenly. Haiti. Brother and Sister Williams came along. After two days of That was the experience we had began the observance of the Sabbath, trudging up and down the mountains every day. He lagged at night be- and were alone until eleven years and wading through many rivers, cause he was tired ; and he was ago, when a woman and her children she arrived with the desired reports, tired because he had done a great accepted the truth and associated and then walked back to her home. deal of fretting and worrying in the with them. They were then bap- Such is the devotion of these black- forenoon. It is not hard work that tized by Pastor Lawrence Chadwick, skinned people to the cause of God. kills people ; it is worry. Hard work, who was passing through the island There are eleven young people's genuine hard work, rarely ever hurts at that time. In 1905 Pastor W. J. societies in the island, and these a person ; but worry kills. Tanner arrived there from Jamaica, societies are doing a good work in A traveller once related his ex- and superintended the work for six spreading the message in their towns perience in going up a mountain in years, when he and his family were and villages. Europe. He started out in the compelled to return to the United MARGARET E. PRIEGER. morning. The air was 'bracing, the States on account of failing health. scenery was beautiful, his soul was At that time the number of believers thrilled with delight ; and that energy was about one hundred and ninety. Third Week came to him which always comes as Since Pastor Prieger's arrival in 1912, the result of good, bracing air, bright 114 have been baptized, and there Patience and Perseverance sunshine, and beautiful surroundings. are now fifty-four candidates await- ing the ordinance.—Selected. Hymn. He started up the mountain with all Prayer. this energy. As he went along he Secretary's Report. passed a peasant, also going up the Miraculous Deliverances Scripture Drill : John 8 :58. Reports of Labour. mountain, but the peasant was not DURING the year 1914 a fierce Hymn. going half as fast as the traveller. revolution raged, and many persons " Learn to Wait." He was taking a steady, even, swing- were put to death. But the Lord Poem : " The Hare and the Tortoise." ing gait. The traveller wondered Five-minute Exercise : Questions on "Life miraculously preserved the lives of Sketches " for week ending Janu- how a man could walk like this, with our native brethren. A young man, ary 20. so much to invigorate him. By a physician, was ordered to take up Hymn. noon, however, the traveller was arms with the government troops, tired out, and lay down under a tree but he refused ; then he, with twelve LEADER'S NOTE.—"Learn to Wait" is to rest. Far down the mountainside others, was ordered to be shot. The by Professor Griggs, the Secretary of the he saw the peasant swinging along General Conference Educational Depart- soldiers fired a volley, and the twelve ment, who visited Australia and New Zea- at the same steady gait of the morn- men fell dead, but our brother was land recently. Many of our young people ing. After a while the peasant came unhurt, and escaped. A little later he had not the privilege of meeting him, but up, and passing the weary man, went was again captured, and refusing to we feel sure all wiii be interested in the steadily on toward the top of the article from his pen, " Learn to Wait," that take up arms, was lined up with was addressed to his students when teach- mountain. The spent traveller had several others to be killed ; but the ing, but which is just as applicable to our seen a new version of the " Hare and shots missed him and he again missionary volunteers everywhere. the Tortoise." In this story we have escaped. The third time he was a good illustration of how we must ordered to be shot, and this time accomplish life's task. death seemed inevitable ; but the Learn to Wait shots failed to hit him, and the third Learn to Climb time he was delivered as by a miracle. I WANT to talk to you about wait- First, we must learn the delight of He lives to-day to praise the Lord. ing. The scripture which .1 read climbing the mountain. If we gain Another young man was captured might form a text for what I shall the top, we must patiently and per- at St. Raphael, and on the way to say. " He spake a parable unto severingly climb, husbanding our the prison the soldiers, hearing that them to this end, that men ought strength ; for we are passing at every the president was fleeing, let the always to pray, and not to faint " ; point the place where some one else brother go, laying him down by the that men having set out upon a had turned back, and the higher we roadside. He lay there for two days, right course of action should keep get the more beautiful the landscape. in the hot sun, when some one came going, and wait for the result. The The Scripture says that in patience by and untied the ropes, and set one who does not learn this lesson of we possess our souls. The principle him free. waiting never reaches the end of his of patience needs to come into all the MARGARET E. PRIEGER. journey. Now that is rather a affairs of our life. You need it when JANUARY, 1917 MISSIONARY LEADER 9 you get your lessons, when you do an antagonist, and he improved every stimulate us to energetic work, to your domestic work, washing dishes, opportunity to receive help from his patient waiting. sweeping floors, or anything what- associates ; so that in spite of all his So then, when you come to your ever ; and you will find that if it adverse circumstances, he pushed lessons, to your domestic work, to comes into all your work, it will keep himself to the foremost place in the anything that you have to do, take you from being angry, it will be a English Government. hold of it with this patient deter- habit with you that will be your stay God wants you to have high ideals. mination ; for it will carry you in the hour of calamity, in the hour Your ideals • may not be, and should through. Make no delay ; begin of sudden trial. not be, the ideals of Napoleon, or of now. PROFESSOR F. GRIGGS. any great statesman or warrior. " Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; We build the ladder by which we rise These are not the right ideals for From the lowly earth to the vaulted those who believe in the near coming The Hare and the Tortoise skies, of the Lord ; I mention these ex- And we mount to its summit round by amples simply to show the working Said a hare to a tortoise, Good sir, what round." a while of principles which are always true, You have been, only crossing the way ; The heights that are by great even when applied to ideals not the Why, I really believe, that to go half a men reached and kept, are attained, highest. God has important places mile, you remember, by toiling steadily, to be filled in the work of the third You must travel two nights and a day." earnestly upward, while others sleep. angel's message, and' He has espec- " I am very contented," the creature re- One who has reached a great height, ially called upon young men and plied, young women to give•themselves to " Though I walk but a tortoise's pace ; and knows how he reached it, is not But if you think proper, the point to de- liable to be driven from that position. these callings, to select from these cide, That is exactly why it is that rich various callings a definite work, and We will run half a mile in a race." men's sons do not accomplish much, to persevere in it; because they are " Very good," said the hare: said the tor- as a rule. The only way that a rich strong and full of vigour, and because toise, " Proceed, man's son can accomplish anything, they are at the beginning of life's And the fox shall decide who has won." is to walk the same path that his race. Then the hare started off with incredible speed, father walked in getting the riches. An Example in Patient Waiting But the tortoise walked leisurely on. The same principle which helped the father in getting the riches, must We observe that many young men Come, tortoise, friend tortoise, walk on," animate the son in using them. and young women run well for a said the hare, " While I shall stay here for my dinner ; High Ideals time, but they are not willing to wait. Why, 'twill take you a month, at that They may choose a profession, but rate, to get there; Napoleon had a classic face, and they are not willing to work at it. Then, how can you hope to be winner? " yet it is said that it always looked They are not willing to make them- But the tortoise could hear not a word the same, in adversity or prosperity ; selves indispensable in their chosen that she said, that in the hour of success, when he work. They do not pray ; they do For he was far distant behind ; was ruler of so many thousands, not trust ; and the goal they should So the hare felt secure, while at leisure she fed, there was no look of triumph on his reach is lost sight of. God Himself, And took a sound nap when she'd dined. face ; and several years before that, in His great work for humanity when he was suffering adversity, gives the greatest example of this But at last, this slow walker came up with the hare, there was no look of despondency. principle of patient waiting. He And there fast asleep did he spy her ; He was working according to certain created a race of human beings to And he cunningly crept with such caution principles which he believed would live an upright, righteous, happy life. and care, gain success, and when those prin- They departed from this, and then That she woke not, although he passed by ciples had done their work, he was He set in operation a great plan of her. not surprised. That great English redemption. Now God could have " Well, now," thought the hare, when she statesman, Disraeli, was an example blotted that race out of existence in opened her eyes, " For the race ; and I soon shall have of what I am talking about. He an instant, as you all well rec- done it " ; was a Jew, and you know that the ognize; but He wanted to teach But who can describe her chagrin and Jews have always had a very difficult every one this lesson of patiently surprise, time to succeed in any country and waiting until the end was accom- When she found that the tortoise had any calling. As a people they are plished. won it despised. But Disraeli, in spite of When Jesus Christ came to this Thus, plain, plodding people, we often the fact that lie was a Jew, deter- earth and was crucified, it might look shall find, Will leave hasty, confident people behind : mined to enter politics. He did not as if utter disaster had overtaken the Like the tortoise and hare, though to- have an education at a university, great work that God had entered gether they start, and the consequent influence and upon. It would naturally look so to We soon clearly see they are widely apart. fast friendships which are gained by every common observer. No, indeed ! While one trusts the gifts Dame Nature such an education and such associa- that apparent hour of disaster, was bestows, tion. He was naturally a very in- the hour of triumph ! I want you to And relying on these, calmly stops for dolent person, and yet he was never learn this one lesson ,--that disasters, repose, The other holds slowly and surely his way, absent from Parliament. It made that troubles, are not a serious thing And thus wins the race, ere the close of no difference if business did lag, lie after all. Disasters should never the day. never missed an opportunity to trap make us disheartened ; they should —Selected. 10 MISSIONARY LEADER JANUARY, 1917

Fourth Week heart the hymns we sing and study tience that nothing could disturb' about to-day ? It is so easy to learn and a truthfulness that would never Praising God in Song them, and you will always be glad to sacrifice integrity. . . . Often He ex- Hymn. know them, and to be able to sing pressed the gladness of His heart by Prayer. them without a book. singing psalms and heavenly songs. Secretary's Report. When you learn these hymns and Often the dwellers in Nazareth heard Scripture Drill : Review. His voice raised in praise and thanks- Reports of Labour. sing them, remember that you are Hymn. learning hymns that are'sung all over giving to God. He held communion Bible Study on Singing. the world. Some of them have been with heaven in song ; and as His " Singing God's Praise." translated into other languages, but companions complained of weariness " Jesus, and Shall It Ever Be ? " from labour, they were cheered by " Jesus Sang." even in English they are sung " I'm But a Stranger Here." wherever missionaries are stationed. the sweet melody from His lips. 11 Onward, Christian Soldiers." Some years ago England went to His praise seemed to banish the evil " Sung on Europe's Battle-Field." great expense to have the national angels, and, like incense, to fill the " Adventist Music.'' place with fragrance. The minds of Five-minute Exercise : Questions on "Life anthem translated into the different Sketches " for week ending Janu- languages—dialects, we call them— His hearers were carried away from ary 27. spoken in India. It was translated their earthly exile to the heavenly Hymn. into Arabic, Persian, Hindustani, and home." the rest, so that all the natives, no At the Last Supper, " before leav- Praising God in Song matter what their tongue, could unite ing the upper chamber, the Saviour in singing, " God Save the King." If led His disciples in a song of praise. THE Angels Sing. Luke 2: 13, you take your Bible, and turn to the His voice was heard, not in the 14 ; Job 38 : 4-7. New Testament and read in the fifth strains of some mournful lament, but God Is Pleased to Have His chapter of Revelation, verses nine to in the joyful notes of the Passover Children Sing. Ps. 69 : 30, 31 ; thirteen, you will see a picture of hallel ; Matt. 21 : 9, 15, 16. what will happen when all the world What to Sing. Col. 3 : 16. " 0 praise the Lord, all ye nations : has learned of the gospel. All nations Praise Him, all ye people. The Redeemed Will Sing. Rev. and all peoples will sing praises to For His merciful kindness isgreat toward 15 : 2, 3. our God,—praise that our young us And the truth of the Lord endureth forever. people should give daily to their Praise ye the Lord.' " Singing God's Praise loving Heavenly Father.—.4dapted from the Junior Herald. THERE is a pretty story about the "I'm But a Stranger Here" Far North where the night is months "Jesus, and Shall It Ever Be ?" long. It is said that when it is near THIS is a hymn that young people dawn, the natives send a messenger• ALL missionary volunteers should have loved to sing since it was first to the highest point of the land to have a special interest in this beauti- written, and they will like it still look for the first gleams of day, and ful hymn ; for it was written by a more when they know its story. when the messenger catches a glimpse boy, and a boy only ten years old at It was written by a young minister of a sunbeam, he cries, " Behold the that. Perhaps, like other boys, who was about to1die. His name sun ! " Then all the rest of the Joseph Grigg sometimes found it was Thomas Rawson Taylor, and he people take up the shout, " Behold hard to stand up and speak a word was born in Yorkshire, England, in the sun ! " Young and old rejoice for Jesus. He was horn about 1720, 1807. His father was a preacher, that the long night has ended at last, and lived in England. His parents and the boy studied at various places and that daylight, sunshine, and were poor, but he studied for the where his father laboured. HA was warmth are to he theirs for a time. ministry, and for many years was very anxious to become a preacher, Whether or not the story is true, the pastor of a church in London. too ; and while he was going to there is a lesson here for us all. Mr. Grigg wrote a number of other • school, he took the time to visit the Those Northern people may forget in hymns, but " Jesus, and Shall It villages and small towns nearby, to the long day that they were so glad Ever Be ? " and " Behold a Stranger preach to the people. when the morning came, and we at the Door " are the best known. When he fell ill, and knew that he sometimes forget to be glad and The song we sing to-day has lived could not live many years, he stopped grateful to our Heavenly Father for and been sung nearly two hundred school, was ordained, and became all His goodness. But we can say years, and it will live as long as the pastor of a small church. But in the morning, " Praise God, from Christians need it to help them tell in less than three years his strength whom all blessings flow," and then of Jesus' love. How glad we. should failed, and he was obliged to go we can be sure of having shown our be that God put it into the heart of home. Here he helped his father gratitude at least once a day. a boy to write these words ! when lie was able. It was during One of the sweetest ways for us to this time that he wrote the simple, praise God is by singing hymns. Jesus Sang beautiful words of his hymn, which Does that sound like an uninteresting have been a help and comfort to thing to do? Just try it for a while, " As a child, Jesus manifested a many thousands of sick and suffering and you will find out that it is just peculiar loveliness of disposition. people ever since. as nice as any other kind of singing His willing hands were ever ready to His was a lovely life, and its work —nicer, in fact. Why not learn by serve others. He manifested a pa- of ministry and service will never die. JANUARY, 1917 MISSIONARY LEADER 11

His last words were those of a brave Adventist Music Modern Times Christian—" I want to die like a Coming down to modern times, GOD, the All Thtsical, in every soldier, sword in hand." with D. L. Moody, one of the sincer- great movement connected with His est and truest of all modern evangel- work of creation and redemption has ists, was closely associated Ira D. always had special music exactly ap- " Onward, Christian Soldiers!" Sankey, who performed the wonder- propriate for the time and the oc- ful, and before unheard-of feat of sing- NEARLY fifty years ago Dr. Sabine casion. • At creation's dawn there ing and composing at the same time, Baring-Gould, an English clergyman, was no note of sadness in the great in the presence of a great meeting, conducted a mission at Horbury anthem of praise when the morning the music of the song, " Ninety and Bridge. The girls and boys who came stars sang together and all the sons Nine," and whose earnest, heart were from poor families where food of God shouted for joy over the singing it is probable, equally with was often scarce, and so it was but finished work, when the Supreme Mr. Moody's preaching, helped to ac- natural that they should take special Judge Himself had declared that all complish their great work. Their delight in the school feasts. The was very good. But when redemp- names go down together in history, hall where the feasts were given tion is finished in the great song of " Moody and Sankey," the preacher was a long distance from the mission praise there is added a minor strain and the singer. building, and so the pupils marched sweeter than any chord in creation's In the early Advent movement the in procession, with flags and banners, song, " Worthy is the Lamb that hymns on the subject of the coming of and the cross at the head of the line. was slain." This sweetest song of the Lord, sung with intense earnest- Of course there must be music, and all, will have in it a pathetic touch ness and solemnity, had a wonder- since they had no song that seemed of sadness, a memory of sorrow and ful effect on the hearers. James to be just the thing, Mr. Baring- pain, then forever ended. The song White, one of the great leaders in Gould wrote one for the occasion : at redemption's consummation is the great• second advent movement wondrously fitting for the glorious " Onward, Christian soldiers! of 1844, was very musical, a power- victory over death and sin. Marching as to war, ful and an excellent singer. And When God had brought Israel With the cross of Jesus there were many others whn sang Going on before." through the Red Sea while their en- with heart and soul and voice, and emies, the Egyptians, were drowned, with telling effect the message of the The children liked it from the " Then sang Moses and the children coming of the Lord. Many of us start, and sang lustily all the way. of Israel this song unto the Lord, have heard one of the oldest living However, they did not know the and spake, saying, I will sing unto pioneers tell of his first acquaintance famous tune that we sing, for it was the Lord, for He bath triumphed with the first angel's message, and of not until several years later that Sir gloriously : the horse and his rider the converting power of the first ad- Arthur Sullivan, another Englishman, hath He thrown into the sea." Ex. vent song he heard, that brought him wrote the famous march-like tune 15 : 1. that fits the stirring words so well. at once to acknowledge the truth Jesus sang with His disciples, and Very soon it found its way into of that message. At one time an the inspired command by the apostle practically all the hymn books. It Adventist company was arrested for Paul is, " Speaking to yourselves in was this tune, together with his disturbing the people with their sing- psalms and hymns and spiritual many other musical compositions, ing. At the command of the judge songs, singing and making melody in that won for the writer the title of before whom they were tried, they your heart to the Lord." Music, " Sir."—Our Juniors. sang three of the thrilling Advent suitable for the time, has always hymns, and were set free at once played a most important part in all with the statement that, " If people Sung on Europe's Battle-Field the history of the church and the are disturbed with that kind of sing- Reformation. Luther was not only ing they ought to be disturbed." DURING the first four months of a great preacher, but a musician, a My father and mother well re- the great European war, I was living composer, and a sweet singer. In the member, and both of my grand- near the border line between Russia darkest hours when it seemed that mothers and grandfathers took part and Germany, in a town that was only ruin and death were before him, in, the great movement of 1844. As occupied alternately by the Russians he called his friends and sang with a boy, how many times in the even- and the Germans. We were many them songs of faith and trust appro- ing twilight have I heard them, with times in the midst of great battles, priate for the great struggle through other pioneers, sing the old Advent and were exposed to many dangers which they were passing. hymns in a manner that thrilled me and hardships. During this time of With John Wesley in his great through and through, and set every peril I sang the forty-sixth Psalm work was intimately associated his nerve and every drop of blood, and every day. I had learned the music brother, Charles Wesley, the singer my very heart, to vibrating. Since to the sublime words of this psalm and song writer, who probably wrote then I have heard many of the great- in Philadelphia before going to Europe more hymns than any other man. est singers and musicians in the and in time of peril and danger, I Among these is that immortal song world, but never have I heard music truly found in this wonderful psalm that never will grow old, "Jesus, that so powerfully impressed me as a refuge and strength." Surely all Lover of My Soul." The music of the soul-singing of the old pioneers of God's people will sing that psalm Charles Wesley and the preaching of in the Advent message of the simple in the time of war and trouble." John Wesley were a combination of yet mighty Advent hymns. E. HANSON. great power. Think you that the close of this 12 MISSIONARY LEADER JA.NeARY, 1917

work will come and find us using The Old Advent Hymns purpose. Our native brethren are any music inappropriate for our endeavouring to buy the land which Let us sing of the coming of Christ, will cost £430. This will be a great great message ? Every great re- of the heavenly home, and of the struggle for them as they are very ligious movement has had music great truths of our distinctive mes- of its own appropriate for the poor and have but little of this sage. And let us select true, sub- world's goods. I am sure if you time and the occasion, and for stantial music. God will, no doubt, the special message. This message, could have seen the looks of gladness have some music written directly for and thankfulness on the faces of our in its closing power, will have such the closing work, but many of the music. We do not need to imitate brethren when I told them that I old hymns, if sung with the spirit, had received the money from Aus- the music of Babylon, any more than would bring a great blessing to God's we need to imitate the preaching of tralia for the new church, you would people. It is sad to see that to feel well repaid for all the sacrifices Babylon. Thank God that we have many of " the generation which you have made. still some real Advent music, but we knew not " the old Advent spirit and shall have a far greater revival of dis- " We have been forced to hold our the old Advent music, some of the meetings for some time in a build- tinctive Advent singing appropriate sweetest and most spiritual of the old for the most solemn and awful crisis ing not fit for the worship of Advent hymns are entirely new. God. Our quarterly meetings have the world has never known. The " Jesus Soon Is Coming, This Is My old Advent hymns, when sung with to be held under our house: You Song," " 0 Brother Be Faithful," can understand something of what it the Advent spirit, bring into the " We Have Heard from the Bright, would mean to crowd together 275 meetings the presence and power of the Holy Laud," etc. (Numbers 872, or 300 people for such a service God, whose Spirit is so effectively 509, 1010, etc., in " Hymns and underneath a house in such oppres- banished by much of the modern Tunes.") May God give us a revival sive heat. light music many have been accus- of true Advent singing, old and new, " God has greatly blessed our work tomed to hear and to sing in the that will shake the world, and hasten during the past six months. Thus popular churches. the time when we shall join in the far we have baptized 328 people. great victory song of Moses and the Cheap Music We are f,ow building our new col- Lamb at the coming of our Lord and lege. Our teachers have arrived and There was never before such a Saviour Jesus Christ. we look forward with much interest flood of cheap music, dance music, J. S. WASHBURN. " ragtime," as to-day. The satanic, to the great help this will be to us in Sodomic dances of to-day are a sign training new workers. the end is just upon us. The cheap, A Great Change Wrought sensational, sentimental hymns of Sabbath= School to-day, many of them come from the " The Filipino people had been same school of music. In speaking Missionary Exercises kept in darkness and ignorance of the of modern revivals, " Great Contro- progress of other parts of the world versy," that wonderful book which January 6) until the American occupation of the islands. should be studied to-day more than The Day of Opportunities in the ever before, says on page 464, " There Philippine Islands "Even their maps represented is an emotional excitement, a min- Spain as occupying the larger part of gling of the true with the false, that DURING the second quarter of Europe. •They were taught that the is well adapted to mislead." 1916, our Australasian Sabbath- only Christian people in the world It is true there are many grand old schools had the privilege of helping were the people of Spain, Mexico, hymns like, " Jesus Lover of My the work in the Philippine Islands, Italy, and a few other small nations; Soul," " Nearer My God to Thee," including the building of a church in that the American people were not _Rock of Ages," etc., that always Manila. These Islands still form a Christians; that disease, plague, and will be appropriate. It is true that part of the great Eastern field to calamity could be banished by . call- there are some modern hymns which we are sending our offerings ing upon the saints, and holding pro- that are good, but very much is this year. The following received cessions in their honour. Penances simply sentimental trash. A hymn from Pastor L. V. Finster will be of and indulgences were the order of of that kind will spoil the best interest to all who had a part in con- the day. sermon, paralyze the effect of the tributing to this work : "But with the arrival of the most earnest prayer. I well remem- " To our Sabbath-schools in Aus- public school system, the establish- ber hearing, after a most earnest tralia, Greetings,— ment of hospitals, and the campaign sermon, a modern concert senti- " On behalf of the Manila Church, on sanitation, these conditions have mental song sung with manifest I wish to thank you for your great changed. The young people now pride and affectation, and the effect help in sending us your offerings to know something of the world, the of the sermon was wholly ruined. I help us in building a church. Your cause of disease, and the history of also well remember hearing a person generosity has greatly impressed our the past. This knowledge has who often boasted of being " up-to- native brethren, and has led them to caused them to lose faith in the date " in the line of music, lead a be more liberal themselves. It is so church that has kept their people in hymn, with good words, so rapidly warm in Manila that it is impossible such superstition and darkness for so sung to a dance tune, that moved the to hold our general meetings in a many years. It also influences the feet rather than the heart, that the tent, so our central church must he older people, although many of them meeting was completely spoiled. large enough to be used for this still continue in the old forms. JANUARY, 1917 MISSIONARY LEADER 13

" All are now grasping for knowl- Ceylon. From what he has written them. The opposition he is meeting edge. They are willing to listen to me of his school work I feel that he from his friends and from his wife the preaching of the Bible, although will be of great service to us when and children, is making his way in the past it was impossible to he comes to know the truth a little very difficult at present. obtain a hearing. At both our tent better. He has begged me very We organized a Sabbath-school meetings this year, we have had from earnestly to come to see him, and I and arranged for the Sabbath-school three hundred to one thousand in have promised to do . so at my offerings and reports to be sent to us attendance every night, and most of earliest opportunity. It is a thou- until other arrangements can be these are from the Roman Church. sand pities that we do not now have made. I am planning to write these We could have hundreds of such a capable man in Ceylon to look people often and help them as much meetings if we had money and men after the many interests which are as I can. To-day I have sent them to put into the field. springing up all over the island. some of •our magazines. They feel Now is the time to work in the We ought to have two families there ; very anxious to have a European Philippines. If we fail to improve one man to give his whole time to missionary stationed in Ceylon." this opportunity, I fear each succeed- evangelistic work in the city of This is but another example of ing year will be harder for our work. Colombo, and another man to look how the providence of God leads Many islands of this group have not after the vernacular work on the out in the development of mission- as yet been entered by any Protes- island. I cannot help but appeal to ary endeavour. Somehow we seem tant church. May God help His you at this time especially, to con- unable to keep pace with the on- people to arise and enter these wide- sider this favourable situation and to ward progress of the message. We open clOors." do all in your power to supply the have always had more openings than need." we could fill. This is still true, but The following is a portion of these marvellous openings beckon us !January 13 Brother Thomas' letter to Pastor to greater efforts. Good News From Ceylon James, telling of his visit to Ceylon : A. G. DANIELLS. " Jaffna is at the northernmost THE following from Pastor J. S. part of Ceylon, thirteen hours by James, of India, is most interesting train from Colombo. I spent three (January 20) and impressive : full days with the company of in- " About four months ago we re- terested ones there, which consists Calcutta, India ceived at our office in Madras a of a lawyer and his wife, a school request from some people in Jaffna, man, two widows, and a boy about IT is four years since I began Ceylon, for copies of all our Tamil fourteen years of age. The lawyer work in Calcutta, and they have literature and the book, " Daniel and is about thirty-five years old, and is been four very busy ones. When I , the Revelation." We sent them the a very clean-appearing man. Ever came here, we had a church of Tamil tracts and papers, but had to since he accepted this message, he twelye members, meeting for services refer them to Lucknow for the has ceased his attendance at the in the parlour at our treatment- English books. Later, the Lucknow courts on Sabbath. This has very rooms, on 75 Park Street. However, office received an order from these much reduced his income. He and the way soon opened for securing a same people for " Bible Readings," his wife are honest in their convic- hall for our public services on Free " The Great Controversy," and the tions. They feel anxious to have School Street, and we have continued Signs of the Times. Shortly after this message preached to the people work in this place ever since. God this I got in personal touch with of Ceylon. He is much inclined to has wonderfully blessed our efforts. them, but as I could not make them give up his present prospects and We have had our share of disappoint- a visit in the near future, I arranged begin canvassing for our English ments and trials, yet we realize that for Brother E. D. Thomas to go literature, such as the " The Great we have had many rich blessings, over to Ceylon to see them, and find Controversy " and " Daniel and the for which we are truly thankful. out something of their situation. . . . Revelation." He desires to work The year 1915 was our best year " From what I have learned, these among the educated Indians, and thus far. Twenty-three members people in Jaffna heard the truth feels that he can do a good work were added to the church by baptism. through two of our baptized brethren for them. His wife is a noble In the winter of 1914-15, we were who were visiting their old home in woman, and loves the truth with her able to hold meetings for eight weeks that community, having come over whole heart. They are the parents in the Theatre Royal, one of the from the capital of the Federated of fine, bright children, and are largest theatres in the city : and when Malay States, where they had re- quite well-to-do. we moved to our own hall on Free ceived the truth. " The school man is a graduate of School Street and began meetings " The two leading characters in Queen's College, Canada. He is a there, a large number of interested this company are both well-educated native of Jaffna, and has married an people followed us, and new ones Indian men, and Brother Thomas Indian lady who was educated in the came in, of whom a large number says the truth has taken a firm hold Isabella Thoburn College, at Luck- were finally brought into the church. in their hearts. One of them is a now. He is the head-master and It was a little expensive to conduct successful lawyer of some means ; manager of a school of his own, meetings in the theatre, yet the the other holds the degree of Master with three teachers working under results, we feel, have more than of Arts, and has had years of ex- him. He has several of our books repaid us. perience in educational work in and is vei y earnest in his study of Our church in Calcutta is growing, 14 M 1SSION Afn LEADER JANUARY, 1917 not only in membership, but in (January 27) James, to send seine one to Jaffna, Ceylon, to help us? I will allow my school to be personal experience and active mis- " Come Over and Help Us " a place for meetings. sionary work. We have a strong Can't you send some one at once to teach missionary society, which is doing IN our missionary exercise two mid help, as there arc seven or eight good work. It is taking a regular weeks ago, entitled, - Good News from families of us, or a community of about Ceylon," we told of two men, a twenty-five in all ? club of 2,000 copies of the Oriental Yours in God's keeping. Signs each month. Different mem- lawyer and a school man, who are bers of the church are holding regular greatly interested in the truth. We Mr. bee's third letter follows : have some letters from the latter, Bible readings each week, and three Dear Mr James : Pastor Thomas was of those baptized last year came in written to our brethren in India, here for three days, and we were much as the direct result of the efforts of which will be of interest to our helped by his visit. I have finished reading members of the church. This was a readers, indicating as they do the "The Great Controversy," and have seen simple faith and real earnestness of the truth and am determined to follow it. source of great encouragement to me The Sabbath observance causes much perse- as well as to these workers. this seeker after light. The writer's cution, but the Lord is sufficient in these Our Sabbath-school during the name is Samuel G. Lee : trials. I desire to work in a line consonant past year reached its highest member- I have read " Daniel and the Revelation," with the new light. Some most bitter ship, seventy-seven, and I think it and am convinced that the seventh day is persecutors have become calmer. I have the Sabbath of the Lord. We have been two boys and four girls. The older boy is would be hard to find a more interest- holding meetings and worship on that day fourteen years of age, and the youngest ing Sabbath-school anywhere. One for nearly two months. What we can say girl is two years old. They all speak very encouraging feature is that is, " Come over and help us." We meet English. Some decisive action must be many children whose parents are not with much opposition. I rejoice to suffer taken by us. Please put us in the way. in the cause of the kingdom. It is impos- I desire the earnest prayers of believers members of the church are members sible to observe the Sabbath of the Lord that the rest of my life may be devoted to of our Sabbath-school, and through and be in partnership with the churches God's kingdom according to God's way. them the interest of the parents is here, which are following the higher critics. Yours very truly. being awakened to know more about Therefore, please take steps at once to start work here. I will turn over to the mission The earnestness and zeal of this this message. the school which is entirely under me ; but seeker after truth should appeal All our Sabbath-school offerings we cannot do anything until we meet and mightily to us who have so much go to mission work. Last year our know each other properly. light and so many privileges and church raised more than an average The next letter was written to the blessings, and lead us to put forth of is. 8d. a week for each member. International Tract Society : every effort to send experienced One of our members is now in Your kind letter was duly received. workers to Ceylon to help these dear Persia, in a place where the third Thanks for the literature sent. Besides people. A. G. DANIELLS. angel's message has not been pre- these I received by post " The Great Con- sented. He is a loyal Seventh-day troversy," "Bible Readings," and "Daniel Adventist, and I know he will hold and the Revelation." I particularly began to study the latter book and read most of up the truth in Persia. . what was said of the beast and the image Fourth Sabbath Another brother is up in one of and the mark of the beast, etc. I began to the native states. He is a dentist, rise very early in the morning, at 4.30 or 5. Reading and is there on professional business, But on the twenty-third my hand bag, with but is also giving out literature and other valuables and this ' Daniel and the Revelation," was stolen from my home. (January 27) teaching the principles of the third I am of Christian parents, brought up in angel's message. the belief that the Bible is the inspired Messengers of Light and Life A brother whom I baptized is in word of God. My parents were Congrega- tionalists, but I came to learn that the a new field in Burma where the 1. WHILE men are in darkness, they are believer's baptism is God's appointment, alienated (or cut off) from the life of God. third angel's message has not been and so was baptized on November 19, 1893. Eh 4 : 18. given. He is head-master of a gov- Then 1 was the senior mathematical master •l. Our Saviour came that man might ernment school in this place. After at Wesley College, Colombo. The more I have life and have it more abundantly. this brother was baptized, he ordered began to follow the Bible the more I found John 10 : 10. myself alone. So I had to organize a 3. This life can come to man only through a complete set of Sister White's college in Colombo, " City College " (1894- the knowledge of God and Jesus Christ. works, and a good supply of our 1907). Boys were prepared up to the John 17 : 3. literature to distribute. We are London University matriculation standard. 4. Christ's mission to men was to make looking forward to the time when I kept teachers who were Christians and known the love and righteousness of God. non-smokers and abstainers. I felt that John 17 : '25, 26. a call will come for a minister to real Christian work in school cannot be 5. It is His plan that each soul saved go there and baptize those he has carried on freely when the school is placed from darkness should become a light-bearer led into the truth. under government grant. So I was content to others. Eph. 5 : 8. with the few given me. My wife was edu- Another young man leaves us soon 6. The ignorance of the last generation cated at the Isabella Thoburn College, at concerning God is described as " gross for Loma Linda, to take a medical Lucknow, 1907. darkness." Isa. 60 : 2. first part. evangelistic course to prepare for We closed the work in Colombo and came 7. The preaching of the gospel of the work in Persia. So from our work to Jaffna, where we have been the last seven kingdom will, however, lighten the earth. years. We could not accept the teachings Rev. 18 : 1. in Calcutta we can see the message of the churches here. They are under carried to new fields. higher critics. Now, after reading the NOTE. —We do not understand from this passage that a heavenly being of dazzling brightness will J. M. COMER. books received from you, we have accepted accomplish the work h"re foretold. But a special the seventh day as the Sabbath, and are endowment of the Holy Spirit will be given to holding worship on that day. We sent a God's people, which will enable then, to manifest " IT is easy to think you are to the world the character of God in their own letter to Pastor James. Can you urge the lives—the most convincing message of the power serious•when you are soured." superintendent at Lucknow, and Pastor of God unto salvation. JANUARY, 1917 MISSIONARY LEADER 15

8. God is depending upon His " peculiar their coming from a heathen chief's he could imagine, but could not people "—called out of darkness—to pro- lips'? It is only the gentle touch of learn of, and his prayer had always claim His goodness. 1 Pet. 2 : O. 9. To us He sends the message to arise the quiet Spirit working upon his been for light and understanding of and shine. Isa. 60 : 1. heart. God's character and for a knowledge 10. What it means to "arise and shine" Our work in Shangani has now of what the future had in store. is explained by Paul in Phil. 2 : 15. a good foothold. The message is Only the previous night he had prayed 11. To those who will arise at this time, •God promises a rich harvest of souls. Isa. making rapid progress among the in agony until after midnight, that 60 : 2, last part, to verse 5. heathen kraals. Already the fruit is that Power or Being would give him C. IL PRET YMAN. budding, and soon we expect to see light and relieve him from the terrible some accept the truth. burden which had been crushing him I will tell you about one old native the past twenty years. Somabula Mission, Rhodesia and his wife. When a little girl, " He said that lie was a member of THIS mission was established in their daughter, who is now the the Dutch Reformed Church, but 1901, by Brother F. B. Armitage, wife of an out-school teacher at could not understand or believe in who had been labouring at Solusi— Glendale Mission, began going to our the God they. preached. He could our first mission station established school in Shangani, against her not believe that a loving, omniscient in heathen countries—from which it parents' wishes. They forbade her• God could permit beings to come is about one hundred and fifty miles and beat her, and then she ran away into this world only to burn them in distant. The following paragraphs from home and came to our main a lake of fire throughout eternity. are taken from a report written by station at Somabula. Here she He supposed, because his ministers one of the workers, after visiting the learned to read the Bible and was told him so, that the Bible presented branch schools operated in connec- converted. She returned home and just such a God and such a place of tion with the mission : began reading the Bible to her torment, and felt that he could not The first Sabbath was spent with parents. consistently believe in Christ, who our first out-school, twenty-five miles The result was they were con- was said to be a Saviour from that from Somabula. The morning ser- verted, and to-day they are faithful place of torment. • Consequently he vice was turned into a revival meet- Sabbath-keepers, although they can- had had no God to trust in, and had ing, and the Spirit of God worked not read a word of their .own become reckless and even blasphe- miracles among us. One of the first language. That is certainly strong mous in his language. to bear a testimony was the head faith. It means much for an old " In a few words I asked him if he chief. This chief at first would do couple, such as they, to leave their could harmonize his conception of anything but grant us a school site. beer and smoking. The other na- God with One who permitted sin He was very bitter, until at last tives simply marvel at it. Their that the character of Satan might Brother J. N. de Beer, who has suc- faithfulness has awakened an interest be revealed to the universe, and ceeded Brother Armitage as our in the neighbourhood, and there is characters be developed in angels superintendent, approached him. It now a call for a school. So the and human beings ; and who would happened that there were a number good work is going, and the living finally destroy Satan and sinners, who wanted teeth drawn. Brother God is working in a wonderful way. leaving only those who had perfected de Beer's success was more than can We are of good courage to press on characters to live with God and be credited to human skill alone ; with new zeal as we pass through Jesus throughout eternity. He was God blessed his efforts in extracting these experiences. lying in bed in pain, but as I spoke every tooth. This softened the old these few words to show God's true chief's heart, for he saw that we purpose, the expression of his coun- were here for the good of his people. Light after Praying for Twenty tenance changed, and he buried his To-day he feels that he cannot do Years face in his hands and broke down in enough for us. There has been a ONE of our workers in Natal, while weeping. He reached up his hand very severe drought in his territory, taking treatment at our health in- toward the ceiling and said, Now I and if it were not for the wonderful stitute there, was brought into touch begin to see the light that I have way God is working for the heathen, with a Dutchman who had come to been praying for for twenty years.' the government would have to feed the institute seeking relief from Then I went into the matter more in them. In one forest there is such rheumatism which had made him detail, arid he was a changed man. an abundance of honey that the almost helpless. After conversation, That day he gave his heart to his natives in the vicinity have taken in which the sufferer stated that he new-found Friend and Saviour, and their families and gone to live there, was an unbeliever, they parted. his whole life and ambition have to subsist on honey and herbs. The Nine days later the worker visited changed. From a boisterous, swear- chief's own words in his testimony him again and gives the following ing, godless man, he has become a were these : account of the visit and its happy humble, spiritual, God-fearing and " Almighty God, You have placed results : loving child who wants to talk al- me here to rule these people.. Now " Mr. Odendaal asked about my ways of his new joy and hope. give me wisdom as You did the faith in Christ, and said that for " He is a man of wealth, owning leaders of the children of Israel, twenty years he had had no faith many large and valuable farms, but that Your work may prosper." in Christ, though he believed in he told me that because of his un- It did our hearts good to hear some Being who controlled in the belief lie had taken no pleasure in those words from a man who was affairs of man. During all these his possessions. He said that he once so bitter. Can you imagine years he had prayed to the Being had hated parsons because he 16 MISSIONARY LEADER JANUARY, 1917 had decided they were liars in 1914 (latest figures available). The we open it, I asked for an explana- preaching the popular hell,' and conditions under which our workers tion, but they refused to give any, he had hated me because I was a are labouring have not improved thus saying that if we did not open the parson.' far, judging from the accompanying door they would break it down. It " When I came to visit him, he report written about the middle of was finally opened by the owner of hated me, and would have ordered the present year. the house, who was living below. me out of the room but for his The work in Ecuador is difficult, We were living in the upper part of respect for Sister Blaine, who had but nevertheless it must be done. the house, and, thinking that they had ushered me in. Now his hate has Who will come to share in the diffi- come to kill us, we used benches to turned to love. I have had various culties of this benighted country'? bar the door at the top of the stairs. experiences with people as the truth The darkness is very great. We do We escaped by a back door and came to them, but never one quite not know how long liberty will con- climbing over the roofs of several so striking. Without my suggesting tinue here. This year there has been other houses. In the cold night it, he has given up smoking. a great struggle to change the consti- air, clad in only our night clothes, " Mr. Odendaal has been reading tution and have another form of we sat down waiting for what might eagerly, and I have been studying government. A few years ago a happen. We heard the men climb- with him almost daily, and he has teacher in a public school could not ing the stairs. Our blood chilled, eagerly accepted the truth, and is receive his salary without a certified but as they ascended the stairs the, anxious for baptism. He kept his paper from his confessor, nor could owner of the house followed them, first Sabbath the third day after he any one rent a house without such a saying that we were foreigners, and if received the first light. He is gifted paper. Thus the priests controlled they bothered us they must give an in writing poetry, in debate, etc., everything. account to our government. At last and says that not another line will Only a few weeks ago some mission- they went away. he write but for the furtherance of aries went out to hold meetings in one The second night, at two o'clock, this cause which has brought him of the public plazas. At first the I was attracted by a noise in the freedom. His means also, he says, people had a desire to hear, and many street. I looked out, and in front of will hereafter be spent in the further- came to listen ; but when the priests the house was a priest, a soldier, and ance of this message. He is certain heard of it, they immediately began another man. The priest was fight- of opposition and persecution when to tell the people not to go to listen ing the man with his fists. It seemed he returns home. to those Masons (that is what they that the man was not willing t o do call us here). On the third Sunday something that the priest wished him "Such experiences as the preceding the priests told the people that if the cannot help but inspire the worker to do. In a few minutes they passed missionaries went out in the plaza the on, going about two blocks, then the who witnesses them with a stronger following Sunday, the people should determination to hasten to tell others priest and the soldier returned. be prepared to kill them by stoning When they arrived again in front of who may be in darkness, of the true them and dragging them in the street. •character and love of God and Christ. our house, they stopped, and the On the fourth Sunday about five priest, making signs with his hands, Our courage in God is good, and hundred people gathered. Even the though the people among whom we said to the soldier, " This is the women had their aprons filled with house." I understood quite well labour seem indifferent and self- stones ; and when the missionaries satisfied, we are expecting great what his plans were. Soon an- began to sing, the people began to in- other priest passed hurriedly by, things from God, and will attempt sult them and to shout," Heretics ! " much for Him." and then another. For five nights " Masons ! " " Let us drag them to we were thus bothered. Protection death because they are not worthy to was sent us by the authorities after live! " Finally, by the help of friends, we went to a hotel to live for two Ecuador—a Difficult Field the missionatitth were taken to a weeks. If there is a country in all place of safety. the world that needs special help THE Roman Catholic country of Just a short time ago we were hold- from God, and the special prayers of Ecuador, South America, is one of ing a meeting with an audience that God's people, it is dark Ecuador. the most difficult fields which we have filled the room. Suddenly there AN ECUADOR WORKER. yet entered with the third angel's came a great crash, and the people message. The first workers were rushed out. The windows had been sent out in 1906. Difficulties, hard- smashed with stones. Many said ships, and persecutions have con- that those who did this were sent to fronted our workers from the outset. do it by the priests. The Missionary Leader In 1909, while on a tour inland, The first of January there was Brother Wheeler, accompanied by a much excitement here because of the PUBLISHED BY THE colporteur, was twice attacked by election of a new president. The AUSTRALASIAN UNION CONFERENCE , )I angry men, and they only escaped result was an uprising among the SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS death by stoning, by putting spur to soldiers. Just around the corner from their horses and galloping to a place us we could hear the shooting and "Mizpah," Wahroonga, N.S.W., of safety. After eight years of effort, shouting of the people. This hap- Australia during which fever claimed a victim pened at three o'clock in the morning. Editor: Anna L. Hindson in the wife of one of our workers, A half-hour later twelve men, armed, Printed monthly for the Conference by the only fifteen members were reported in knocked at our door, demanding that Avondale Press, CooranM.ng, N S.W.