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sins ; and I will live in Him day by day.' out. I want to see your hands. [A number Foreign Missions Day It was a triumphant testimony, and the raised their hands.] In this meeting this transforming power of God's Spirit could be morning my heart overflows in love and Department conducted by Pastor A. H. Piper, seen on his face. gratitude to you for sending that ship that Union Conference Secretary " Another testified as follows : In the carried the message to us. I am so glad past I was a heathen boy. I worked the that I can have the privilege of coming to (Sabbath, December 13) works of darkness. The Jaupa Rate you this morning, as one of the fruits of (S.D.A.) Mission came to my village and this message in our far-away land. Notice when I saw the light I came to it, because " ' When you lifted your hands, this text it showed that my works were very dark. came to my mind : "Cast thy bread upon THE offering this morning will be for I was happy in the new light of the mission. the waters : for thou shalt find it after Foreign Missions, for the last time under But later I found that sin came into my many days." It is many days since you the old plan. Beginning with January, life again, and then I began to realise that gave your offerings to help buy that ship 1931, the Second Sabbath offering during the mission could not save me, and that to Pitcairn. Many days have gone over our the church service will be given for local be a true Christian, Jesus must live in my heads between then and now. I am here and conference work. life all the time. I want to live for Him this morning as a result of that enterprise. The selection of an appropriate Scripture and for His work at all times.' Here is another sitting behind me, my reading is left to the leader. Those testimonies were no formal ones. friend. Now in behalf of many other What could be more fitting than that Those boys had a hold upon God. They are minds that are still in darkness, and do not time be given before the close of the service, an excellent class of boys and young men. know of the real Sacrifice, I make this to a season of short, earnest prayers that They do not use their religion for con- further appeal, that you will continue the God's work may have no lack of means, venience, but they live it in their school and work, that these countries may hear this and that His Spirit will be poured out upon work day by day. Thus the power of Christ, good message, and may be ready when our His workers in the mission field? after leading these people to accept the gos- Saviour comes again. My heart rejoices, pel, can sustain them in their daily walk. as I travel from place to place in America, What I Found on Returning And surely this is the most vital need for all to see the zeal manifested in your labours from Furlough of us—that we daily live the life of our and in your offerings to help send the mes- Saviour in the strength provided for us." sage onward. I beg of you also, brethren " ON returning to Choiseul, in the Solo- and sisters, to be faithful as you have been mon Islands, after my furlough in Aus- in the past, that we may all meet at last tralia," writes Brother A. J. Campbell, "I The Message Echoes Back in God's eternal kingdom.' found a steady growth and a good spirit. " There was something very impressive While I was absent in Australia on furlough, THE two Fijian brethren who attended about these words. Here was a native from the General Conference session, afterwards Nangaha gathered the people from several the heathen South Seas, that most forbid- journeyed to the headquarters of our work heathen villages among the hills of Choiseul ding part of the world to which our people down to a location on the shore, near a good in America, and on the Sabbath spoke to so many years ago sent a knowledge of this the church at Takoma Park, Washington. anchorage. I am looking forward to visit- message via the ship Pitcairn. Now come It was the first time that this church had ing these people who have lately decided to two native chiefs from those far South Seas ever had a visit from native believers from part company with heathenism. Several to speak to the representatives of this move- Fiji. Forty years before, some in the audi- years ago on the eastern side of Choiseul, ment at the headquarters of the denomina- ence had taken part in the building and this young man gathered a hundred people tion, to tell us, with visible emotion in sending out of the first missionary ship of from the hills by ones and twos to a good their voices and tears in their eyes, of their this denomination, the location on the coast, and built up a strong Pitcairn, in 1890. gratitude for the missionary gifts of this The following editorial regarding the visit mission. They constitute a fine body of Advent people. And they brought us not of these natives was published in the people to-day, and form a great contrast to Review only their personal word of deep apprecia- and Herald : the heathen who have lately accepted him tion ; they spoke for a large company of as their shepherd. Though they are still A Fijian Chief Speaks native believers in these islands that dot the practically heathen people, we see in this Pacific. They told us of how they and raw material bright, intelligent Christians " In a simple, yet vivid and earnest way, their people had been delivered from the of the future. We now have fifteen mission he told of what God had done for his bondage of fear and degradation in which stations on the island of Choiseul. It was people through the sending of the message they had been held for long centuries by my privilege to take part in the Week of to their islands. In the midst of his re- superstitious beliefs. To them salvation Prayer with the students of the new inter- marks, one of the Fijians declared : was no theoretical thing ; it was a very mediate school on Choiseul. It was a won- " ' You people from this country sent out real power that had released them from the derful occasion, and the Spirit of God was the missionary ship Pitcairn to the islands terror of demons and cleansed them, body very near. Every one of those boys recon- with a message, and we have gotten into and soul. secrated his life to his Creator. this message. And just as iron is cast into " As we listened to their fervid words, " Two of their testimonies will serve to the pit and is melted over and made clean, there came to many of us a new and clearer illustrate the note of deeper spiritual ex- so this message has made us clean. This realisation of the drama of missions that is perience that was struck by all. One young message has presented to the Fijians a being enacted by this Advent movement. man had some years ago spent two years in standard of living which is entirely in prison for stealing from a trader's store. harmony with the Word of God. And now The Circuit Completed After his release he went back to his village, my friend [his fellow Fijian] and myself and by that time the Adventist mission had have come before you as representatives of " To-day there come to the shores of found its way there. He decided to cast in this church and this message which you America from far ports men of different his lot with it and so turn his back on the sent out to Fiji many years ago. We thank race and colour who have been converted by past. He said in effect : My past life has you very much for the gifts you made to the Advent missionaries in the far corners been very sinful, but the gospel came and I send a ship bearing this message to the of the earth, and who now journey here to accepted it, and it has changed my nature. islands. bring the greetings of their people to us in The blood of Jesus flowed from the cross of " ' Now I wonder if there are people here the homeland and to exhort us, as did these Calvary for me I It has washed away my who gave offerings to help send this ship Fijian brethren, ' to be faithful as you have

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Turn wherever we may, there is no First Week believers who should in turn exhort us to other church that is in a position to meet faithfulness and earnestness in preparation the world's need. for the coming of our Saviour from heaven. THE FATAL FORCE OF God has given us the message for the WORDS " When our earnest preaching to all na- hour, and has placed us at the world's stra- tions finally echoes back to us from the far tegic points, with easy access to the millions Opening Exercises. corners of the earth, may we not truly be- of earth, and He is turning the eyes of all Introductory Talk : "The Law of Lan- lieve that the day of the consummation of people toward us. Other Christian denom- guage." this work is not far away ? " inations are even ready to turn over to us Talk : " Conversation a Test of Char- institutions and enterprises that have cost acter." them hundreds of thousands of dollars and Talk : " Words That Hurt." years of sacrificing work to build up. Men Musical Item (of own selection). and women are turning their wealth toward Talk : " Words That Lift." "For Such a Time as This" our work and institutions. Many sin-sick Talk : " Words of Life." THE writer was deeply and sorrowfully souls are awakening, and seeing in this mes- Closing Exercises. impressed a few nights ago as he listened to sage and in this movement their only hope a popular minister deploring the fact that his for salvation. church was obliged to recall ninety mission- This is not a financial crisis. It is a crisis The Law of Language aries from the mission fields. He repre- of faith and loyalty to God. It is a crisis LANGUAGE is one of God's greatest gifts sented one of the strongest Christian de- of love and devotion. It is God's call to to man. Every profession has its own nominations of America, which counts its seize such an opportunity as we shall, in all vocabulary, and every class its favourite membership by the millions. probability, never have again. It is no phrases. The possibilities of linguistic What a tragedy l In the face of unpre- time for a backward step. Everywhere God development are as unlimited as human cedented opportunity, of wide open doors, is calling us to add to, to multiply our thought. The latest dictionary of the forces, and to go forward. If we hold our in spite of the calls and need, to see not one English language is said to contain four but several of the strongest mission organ- peace at this time, if we weaken the definite- hundred • thousand words. The average isations of Christian lands reducing their ness and surety of the judgment hour mes- man uses less than four thousand words. forces Y Young men and woman ready to sage, God will bring enlargement and vic- Shakespeare used 15,000 words ; Rufus answer the call to service in the world's tory from elsewhere. We cannot face such Choate, 11,000 words ; and John Milton, a situation indifferently, and be free from most needy fields are told they cannot go 8,000 words. All the words of your own the blood of hungry souls crying for the life- for lack of means. language belong to you. Enrich your saving truths which God has intrusted us to vocabulary. Every new word, coined or This situation constitutes a challenge to give them. copied, increases your capacity for thought the genuineness of the faith of every believer Our danger is that we shall become so and improves your mode of expression. In of this Advent message. Shall we reduce, used to the marvellous manifestations of the message of this meeting we are to deal or shall we add to and multiply our forces with the possibilites—the upward and in the mission fields and at home? To re- God's power that they will cease to impress us. If we fail to respond fully once, twice, downward possibilities—of ordinary con- duce at such a time as this would be to three times, and so on, these great mani- versation. It was Gregory of Armenia, an confess that we do not believe in Christ. early apostle of Christianity, who asserted It would be to repudiate His great com- festations will become to us commonplace. We do things perfunctorily, as a matter of that " if you divide the sins of men into mission to preach the gospel in all the course. We give donations, pay our tithe, two parts, one half will be the sins of the world, when the world is throwing its doors tongue." wide open to receive the gospel. It would attend church on Sabbath, and engage in the regular activities of the church more or be to become blind to God's undoubted A nation is known by its architecture. less faithfully. Certain it is that we are do- providences leading His church on to the An individual is known by his language. fulfilment of the great programme laid out ing and giving more than the members of A man's words are a part, a vital part, before it, and to turn deaf ears to the calls other Christian churches. That is good, of a man's character. " The human and certainly God is doing a mighty work of perishing souls asking for the bread of soul seeks for expression. There are life. It would be to turn traitor to the through this small body of people. many forms of expression. Laughter cause of Christ in the face of triumph. is the most natural form of expression ; But we are living in stirring times, and beauty, the most acceptable ; music, the We have been sowing, praying, and work- every soul of us should be deeply moved. most universal ; architecture, the most ing for the very opportunities that now are If all that God has done in leading us so dignified and impressive ; eloquence, the ours for only the taking hold of them. far, and is doing right before our eyes in most moving and convincing; literature, God's Spirit has watered the seed sown, He awakening a world lost in sin, does not stir the most enduring ; painting and sculpture, is answering our prayers, and giving the our very souls, then we must be under the the forms which are classic ; but the oldest realisation of our endeavours. Shall we spell of a dangerous slumber. And God is and most comprehensive form of human fail Him at such a time as this, and in the using every means He legitimately can use expression is—language." face of such a situation ? Surely, if God to awaken us to a sense of the need and op- ever spoke to His people in thunder tones portunity of this solemn hour. of certainty, He is doing so now. Just as God has brought us to such a time as this Conversation a Test of truly as He brought the children of Israel Character out of Egypt, led them safely across the for a definite purpose. We are being tested Red Sea on dry land, spoke to them in a as to whether we have vision to see and re- spond to the expectations of His plans and GOETHE said concerning Schiller, " I voice of thunder and amid the lightning at never heard him utter an insignificant Sinai, and led them by a cloud of smoke by purposes at such a time and hour as this. Retrenchment and reduction do not fit into word." The painting reveals the artist, the day and a pillar of fire by night toward the book reveals the writer, the poem reveals fulfilment of the promises made to their His plans and purposes. A slackening of effort, a weakening of faith, or a lessening of the thinker, the building reveals the archi- fathers, so He is leading His people to-day tect, the machine reveals the inventor, and with the same certainty. sacrifice do not enter into them. Addition, multiplication, increase, strength, enlarge- conversation reveals the individual. Re- This is God's hour of opportunity to the ment, finishing,—these are the terms which member that words are the best remem- Adventist people. No people are in so express the spirit that must characterise bered symbols in use. strategic a position to-day as we are to take God's message and work to the end,— Charles M. Alexander, the renowned advantage of God's providential openings. 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Stead's Review, exclaimed, "I have often drew it forth. Grace and salt are necessary Long, long afterwards, in an oak, wondered how you interviewed people !" or even the truth would create enemies I found the arrow still unbroke ; Yet, without realising it, he himself was rather than win friends. And the song, from beginning to end, being " interviewed " at that very moment. Then there are careless words. How I found again in the heart of a friend." One of the great journalists of the day was of ten people are cruelly hurt by the careless focusing his camera upon him. remark of some one I And perhaps we Every one is being " interviewed " every might include under this same class the day by somebody. Our everyday conversa- discouraging words. In a certain hospital Words of Life tion reveals to others just what we are. At there is to be seen a sign bearing these every public meeting of any importance words : "Do not utter one discouraging THE words of Christ are not like other there will be a stenographer either in the word." If only that might be the personal crowd or behind the scene " taking down " men's words. He says they are spirit and motto of each one of us And the sarcastic life. In one of His parables He speaks of the principal speakers in a fashion most words—how they can hurt, too businesslike and scientific. Such is life. His words as seeds. We know what seeds There is a " stenographer " taking down How careful we should be if only we are. You may have in your hand a hand- our conversation. Every paragraph is could realise that every word we utter is a ful of gems—pearls, diamonds, or other transcribed, every sentence recorded, and living force, mighty and indestructible—a precious stones. They are brilliant and every word weighed, and, " By thy words force which never ceases from exercising its beautiful. They are rare and of great thou shalt be justified, and by thy words power. How many of us grasp the signifi- value. You hold a fortune in your hand. thou shalt be condemned." cance of this truth ? Therefore, guard well But these are only stones. They have no your words. life in them. You may plant them in your garden, but they will not grow, and you will not gather any harvest from them. Words That Hurt Then you may take up a handful of seeds— HAVE you not entered a room when the Words That Lift flower-seeds, grain-seeds, seeds of trees. sudden hush in the conversation seemed to They have no brightness, do not shine, can- say, " We have been talking about you? " "MANY a young person, and yes, older not be sold for ornaments. But they have It is not wrong to talk about people if you person too, has gone down, down from way- secrets of life in them. Scatter them in talk about them in the right way. But wardness to disgrace, from disgrace to de- your garden, drop them in your window-box, remember, " Words have wings l " The bauch, because of the criticising, unsym- or plant them in the fields, and they will Persians have a proverb to this effect : " The pathetic words of some one from whom they grow. Christ's words are seeds. They are unspoken word is your slave—the spoken expected help and encouragement. And different from other men's sayings. These word is your master." There is nothing so not once or twice but often has a prodigal may be eloquent, brilliant, wise, sparkling swift as criticism—hurtful criticism. been brought up, up out of the black pit of with beauty—gems of literature, but they moral wreck and wretchedness because some have no life in them. They do not make " Only a faint suggestion, only a doubtful Christlike man or woman reached down a hint, the world any better. But the words of helping hand and said : My brother, come Christ are life. Plant them and you will Only a leading question with a special up and stand beside me.' " tone or tint, have regenerated lives, sweet homes, grace and beauty in character. Only a low I wonder,' nothing unfair "Can we forget one friend, at all; Can we forget one face, As we commit our lips to our Lord He But the whisper grows to thunder, and Which cheered us towards our end, will speak His words through us. Frances a scathing bolt may fall, Which nerved us for our race ? " Ridley Havergal tells of a beautiful prayer And a good ship be dismasted, and which she once heard ; it was this : " Lord, hearts are like to break, Kind words fall on a soil as rich as the take my lips, and speak through them ; And a Christian life is blasted for a hunger of the human heart is keen and in- take my mind, and think through it ; take scarcely guessed mistake." tense. If we would not hurt a fellow being my heart, and set it on fire." And this is Don't believe all you hear concerning with our words we must study to be tactful the way the Master keeps the lips of every your neighbour, and don't pass on what in our conversation. Some one has said, young person who yields his life to His con- you hear. Remember the " four discounts " " Tact is a superfine piece of velvet which is trol, by so filling their hearts with His love recommended by Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage. worn at the point of contact." The tactful that the outflow cannot be unloving, by so First, a discount of twenty-five per cent person knows just what to say and what to filling their thoughts that the utterance for exaggeration. Second, a discount of leave out, when to speak and when to keep cannot be un-Christlike. There must be twenty-five per cent for the spirit of gossip. silent. Frederick Douglass said that filling before there can be pouring out ; and Third, a discount of twenty-five per cent Abraham Lincoln was the only great man if there is filling, there must be pouring for the pressure of overpowering temptation. with whom he talked who did not remind out, for He bath said, "Out of the abun- Fourth, a discount of twenty-five per cent him that his skin was black. A fine exam- dance of the heart the mouth speaketh." to cover your ignorance of the facts on the ple of tactfulness I Oh, that we may always speak with conse- other side of the case. And after deducting A young lady, a telephone operator, had crated lips, and with the prayer of the the discounts you will have nothing left to for some time been on night service, from psalmist in our hearts : " Let the words of pass on. 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. Receiving many calls for my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, " There was a company of ladies at a a certain physician, Dr. S., she had more be acceptable in Thy sight, 0 Lord, my minister's home. As he entered the room than once rung his bell by mistake. Al- Strength and my Redeemer I " he heard them speaking in low voices of an ways he answered her apology in a kindly, absent friend. She's very odd,' said one. courteous voice that showed no trace of im- ' Yes, very singular indeed,' said another. patience. It was such a grateful relief from ' Do you know, she often does so and so ? ' the surly, sleepy voices of others awakened Missionary Volunteer Programme said another, mentioning certain things to at midnight, or the harsh expressions her discredit. The minister asked of whom directed at her when she called a wrong num- Second Week they were speaking. When told, he said, ber by mistake, that she finally became deeply Oh, yes, she is odd ; she's remarkably interested, and wanted to know how it was WINNING OUR FRIENDS singular. Why, would you believe it,' he that Dr. S. could always speak so kindly. added in a low voice, ' she was never heard She made inquiries about him, until she FOR CHRIST to speak ill of any absent friend I '" learned that Christ was supreme in his " Let your speech be alway with grace, heart and life, and that what she was so Song Service. seasoned with salt, that ye may know how admiring in him was simply Christ living Opening Exercises. ye ought to answer every man." Colos- in an earnest Christian. Soon Dr. S.'s Leader's Talk. sians 4 : 6. Saviour was her Saviour. Talk : " Our Business Here." This counsel was directed in the first Musical Selection. place to the manner of answering critics "I shot an arrow in the air, Reading: "Too Timid to Speak." of Christianity. But, like all valuable It fell to earth, I know not where ; Recitation : "Speak a Word for Jesus." counsel, it has a much wider application I breathed a song into the air, Talk : " Enlisting for Christ." than the, particular circumstances that It fell to earth, I know not where ; Closing Exercises.

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Notes for Leader's Talk ful life, and he answered, "I had a friend." Speak a Word for Jesus We read stories of the wonderful trans- THE Scripture lesson, John 1 : 40-47, is a forming power of friendship, and sigh for Speak a word for Jesus in the morning story familiar to us all, the calling of the secret of such almost miraculous influ- gray, Andrew and Peter and Nathanael. ence. But somehow the hustle and bustle Ere the hours of business call your Just note the first sentence of the story. of the daily routine soon crowd out these thoughts away ; A part of it is here on the blackboard : " He deeper things of life, and we move on in the In the quiet highway or the crowded street, (Andrew) first findeth his own brother same old rut. Speak a word for Jesus every chance you Simon, and saith unto him, We have found A bright, happy girl said to Miss Haver- meet. the Messias. . . . He brought him to gal, " I ought to have been yours." " What Speak a word for Jesus in the busy shop Jesus," What a lesson in personal evan- do you mean ? " was the reply. " When I gelism 1 Wouldn't it be a wonderful im- was seeking the Saviour, I put myself in Where the talk is profit or the failing crop, petus for the kingdom of God if every your way several times, hoping that you Talk of Christ's bruised body and His pierced feet ; Christian should feel and do as Andrew felt would speak to me about the matter, but and did—should go right out to find his you did not speak to me, and another led Speak a word for Jesus every chance you brother or his cousin or his closest friend, me to the Saviour." Miss Havergal never meet. forgot that lesson. and bring him to Jesus I If every new con- Speak a word for Jesus when you are at Are there those who could say the same vert did that, we should hardly need a home, thing to us? Have we really approached week of prayer and church revivals and Tell the little children that the Lord says, campaigns, should we ? It wouldn't be our friends to discover if there is a need in their lives? " Come " very long before all the world would be con- Tell the old, old, story, for it is so sweet ; verted. One Missionary Volunteer said : " I keep still, for I always fear that my friends will Speak a word for Jesus every chance you Notice the methods of Philip in being en- discover inconsistencies in my life, and so 1 meet. thusiastic and ready. He believed, and he wished his friends to believe also. In ap- just don't talk about religion." Now what Speak a word for Jesus by a life of faith, would you think of a man starting in busi- proaching your friends to help them, you Guided by this motto, " What my Master ness saying : " I've invested all my money may have to approach each one in a differ- saith ; " ent way, but with the same fundamental in merchandise and it's locked up in this Then shall noble actions, freed from building. I plan to make my fortune in spirit of winning them to the same great earth's conceit, the mercantile business ; but I shall not cause to which you have been won. To do Speak a word for Jesus every chance they open the doors till I have become the best this, you will have to study, you will have meet. business man in the town." You smile, to be tactful, you will have to be patient. —Selected. Most of all, you will have to pray much ; and no wonder. Such a man would be doomed to bankruptcy. you will continually seek the aid of the But is that not just the position the Mis- Christ who was master of this art of ap- sionary Volunteer takes who refuses to try Enlisting for Christ proach. He will show you the way. Let to win his friends for Christ because he feels us emulate the methods and earnestness of that he himself makes mistakes ? The CERTAIN officers commanding various Philip—he was an early Missionary Volun- Master is not looking for faultless workers, units adopted the following method in an teer, and a practical one. but for willing workers who will put away effort to bring their battalions up to the their faults as fast as they discover them, required strength for overseas service. and then press on in the great business of They allowed their entire battalions to Our Business Here winning their friends for Christ. go free for three days, having instructed TO win our friends for Christ,—that is the men to hunt up their relatives, their our business here. That is your business chums, and their acquaintances, in an and mine. Our friends are talents in- effort to get them to enlist. The results trusted to our care. The Master gives Too Timid to Speak were splendid. Do we realise that as soon them to us, and in the words of another, as we enlist in the army of King Jesus, FLETCHER BROCKMAN tells that after a " We must return them to Him better than He immediately commissions us as recruit- certain religious meeting, he went on a long we found them, or prove ourselves recreant ing officers to bring in our relatives, friends, walk with a student, expecting to talk with to our trust." But how can I meet this and acquaintances to His kingdom and him about his soul. But Brockman was obligation ? you ask. There is only one service ? And that He expects us to en- afraid, and kept putting it off and talking way : " Be a connecting link between your gage in this work not simply for three days, on other topics, till the walk was ended and Father and your friends." That is all. or in spare moments, but for life ? nothing had been said. Draw them to Him by your life and by It is not only our friends "on the spot" About a month later this young man your words. Live the life of a soul-winner for whom we are held responsible. There openly confessed Christ, and Brockman among them. Make the salvation of others are those also with whom we correspond. took his hand, telling him how glad he was. your first business in life, just as the Master Have you written to them of the joy you The student replied : " Yes, Brock ; but planned we should. find in the Christian life, and sought to you are the man who would have let me go find out just where they stand ? Many who Some men just cannot leave their busi- unsaved. That Sunday afternoon we cannot speak of such things could write a ness alone. They carry it with them ; it walked together I hoped every minute of letter which may result in leading a soul holds them all the time. Successful in- the way you would offer to help me, but into the kingdom of God. surance men often have this reputation. you did not." Then, too, an officer must maintain the One such was stricken down with illness One of the most precious privileges that army standards. We must live up to all and ordered to the hospital. But facing comes to a young person is to win his we profess, "Never talk to me again about this " shut-in " time he said cheerfully to friends for Christ. There is One above who becoming a Christian," said a young man his chief : " I expect to insure my surgeon ; can strengthen the most timid, and make angrily to his friend. " I saw you last I'll get a couple of nurses ; and, after all, of him a strong personal worker. night in the theatre, and I have no confid- one can do a good deal of business by corre- The story of the negro porter is in con- ence in the religion of a man who goes to spondence." Being "laid aside " for him trast to the illustration just given. He such places." It was a severe rebuke, but simply meant opening up new opportunities was whistling on his way through the train. did not that unconverted young man have a that he would not otherwise have had—and " That sounds like a religious song, porter," right to expect his Christian friend to try to all for more business I The insurance that said one of the passengers. " Why are you be what he professed to be ? the Lord Jesus offers is quite as worth while. whistling it ? " " Jes' to get folks to ask- In all our plans for enlisting our friends What will it mean for Him and for others ing me what piece it is, so I can ask 'em if we must not overlook one of the most im- when we are as eagerly on the trail of new they are right with God. Are you ?" In portant factors—prayer. Prayer can ac- " business " as that cheery, irrepressible, the course of the conversation the passenger complish the required end when all other business getter ? learned that he was constantly testifying of methods fail. Stanley confessed that it was the influ- his faith in Christ, and that for years he Each Missionary Volunteer has his or ence of Livingstone that persuaded him to had not made a trip without leading some her own task to perform. God is depend- become a Christian. Some one asked Charles one to Christ, or at least " stirring 'em up," ing on us. If we are all faithful, His plan Kingsley what was the secret of his beauti- as he put it. for saving the world will be well carried out. it."-•••••••• et•INVIVV,I*Terr•••••• 1.11,1111•••• vvv•••••••vverryvverrrervr••-rern,••••••••••••••••••.•••••••••••••••••,••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••1 DEC., 1930 MISSIONARY LEADER I

Missionary Volunteer Programme Josiah Wedgwood Succeeds Who, with a purpose staunch and true, Will greet the work he finds to do. Third Week AT the back of almost every successful Honest, faithful, earnest, kind— career there is a story of battles bravely To good, keen-eyed ; to evil, blind— The Boys and Girls Needed fought, difficulties manfully overcome. A heart of gold without alloy— The name of Josiah Wedgwood will be quite Wanted—the world wants such a boy." Song Service. unfamiliar to many of you. He was a Opening Exercises. crippled boy who grew to be the greatest Talk and Poem : " The ' Can' Com- potter the world has ever known. But his Making a Way pany." was no smooth path to fame—rather it was one that called for constant perseverance CIRCUMSTANCES could not keep George Reading : " Josiah Wedgwood Succeeds." and patience. Stephenson from succeeding. He worked Talk : " Making a Way." When Josiah was nine years of age his in coal-pits for sixpence a day ; mended Talk : " The Boys and Girls Needed." father died. It was a great blow to the boots and patched the clothes of his fel- low workmen to secure money to attend Closing Exercises. family, and the little boy was taken from school at once and sent to work in the night school. The first money he ever factory, where his eldest brother, Thomas, earned, he gave to his blind father to pay was in charge. For several generations the his debts. It is to this man who made a The " Can " Company Wedgwoods had been potters, and the way that we are indebted for the railway whole countryside where they lived in traffic. People said he was crazy. One THE story is told of a man who, while Staffordshire was famous as the chief cen- writer thought that the prospect of a loco- walking down the street in a manufactur- tre of the industry in England. At the age motive's going twice as fast as a horse was ing town, saw the sign, " American Can of eleven a serious misfortune befell Josiah, absurd, and that Parliament should limit Company," and was forthwith seized with one which was sufficient to darken his the speed to eight or ten miles an hour. the desire to organise a "can" band that whole life. He contracted small-pox, and But on October 6, 1829, the first day of should leave the word " can't " out of their his case was regarded as almost hopeless. trial, the "Rocket" carried off the honours vocabulary. He rallied, however, but his right knee was with an average speed of fifteen miles an hour. Perhaps this is a little play on words, but seriously affected, and for the remainder of his life he was a cripple. He suffered Samuel Johnson, who was almost blind, that is just what we Missionary Volunteers entered Oxford as a servant; he copied ought to be,—a great " can " company. terribly at times with the pain of his knee, and many years later it was found neces- letters from the students' notebooks. Nothing should be too difficult for one to These same boys who laughed at his bare feet attempt who volunteers to be a missionary, sary to have the leg amputated. Josiah Wedgwood loved his work and showing through the holes in his shoes, in and that is just what we each one have after years were to honour him. He was done, isn't it ? gave himself fully to it. Everything con- nected with the potter's trade he found too proud to receive assistance. When he Speaking of the " Can " Company re- interesting. Many of those working with went to London, he lived on five pence a minds me of a poem I read. It is this : him marvelled at hie wonderful skill, and day ; but he was determined not to give up. his brother Thomas did not like it. He He persevered, and finally produced the '" Couldn't ' and ' Could ' were two promis- believed in doing the same old things in dictionary that has made him famous. He, ing boys the same old way and did not appreciate his with six assistants, worked on it for seven Who lived not a great while ago ; younger brother's progressiveness. Thomas years. King George sent him an invitation They had just the same playmates and refused to take Josiah into partnership with to come to the palace, and the universities just the same toys, him, so at the age of twenty-nine he bestowed degrees upon him. And just the same chances for winning started in business for himself. He was These men who have persevered are men life's joys not satisfied with simply making plain who have led and not followed. They were And all that the years may bestow. butter-crocks, brown jugs, and such like, as not leaners. They made their own way. the other potters turned out. The im- Why not you? The one who succeeds is " And ' Could ' soon found out he could provement of pottery became his passion, the one who tries and keeps on trying. fashion his life but there were many, many difficulties in On lines very much as he planned ; the way. He set out to make porcelain He could cultivate goodness and guard ware, but there were no tools suitable for The Boys and Girls Needed against strife ; this work, so he had to study to invent He could mind his own business when some. He was not easily daunted, and his What the world wants is real men—good gossip was rife, unfaltering perseverance and industry over- men. But the world is old enough and And build him a name that would came all difficulties. He aimed throughout wise enough to know that before there can stand. at the highest excellence. Sometimes he be good men and good women there must would look very carefully over some piece be good boys and girls. It wants men of grit "But poor little ' Couldn't' just couldn't which had been a long time in the making, and perseverance. It is never too early for pull through, then say, " It is good, but not good enough you to begin to think bravely and resolutely All the trials he met with a sigh ; for Josiah Wedgwood." Then it would be and hopefully upon the life you intend to When a task needed doing, he couldn't, destroyed. His furnaces troubled him live, and to cultivate the mental and he knew ; greatly for some time, but he set about to physical and spiritual strength that shall And hence, when he couldn't, how could improve them. help you later on to put your good thoughts he? Could you, Probably there has never been a more into permanent good deeds. And not only If you couldn't determine you'd try ? skilled potter than Josiah Wedgwood, but does the world need good men and good his success was due entirely to his own women, but the church needs them and And that was the difference 'twixt determination to succeed. He did not God needs them—men and women of Couldn't' and ' Could ; ' pattern after other men, but followed out courage and perseverance, and who have Each followed his own chosen plan ; his own ideas. He gathered his beautiful learned the secret of living a successful And where ' Couldn't' just wouldn't designs from nature—he followed as his Christian life. ' Could' earnestly would. ideals the things which God had made. You ask, What is the way to success in He faced every task as a manly boy And so it was that the crippled boy, whose Christian life ? Just as the business world should, schooling ceased at nine, and who for long has its books on success, so has the spirit- And won with his watchword, ' I years was hardly ever a day without ual world, and across the Bible we may see can ! '" violent pain, overcame all the obstacles in the illumined letters spelling the word his pathway. The world to-day wants "success." When we come to God and The inward determination, " This thing more Josiah Wedgwoods who will not give our lives into His hands, and ask Him, must not get the better of me," goes far pattern after men but after the God-given Can you take my sinful life, and make a towards winning battles before they are pattern, and who will not be easily dis- successful Christian life from it ?" He fought. The boy or girl who thinks " I couraged. will take us to the Old Testament, and can " is much more likely to succeed in show us the life of Abraham. God took any undertaking than is the one who " The world is eager to employ him from among those heathen worship- thinks " I can't." Not just one, but every boy pers of the moon god at Ur, and faithfully

W> MISSIONARY LEADER DEC., 1930 led him, until he had perfected the Abra- rent there, worth less than two annas, to be Yet it is very unfair and unreasonable to ham who is called the "Father of the Faith- returned at night. She consented. The measure life by one's misfortunes, because ful." He will show us how He took the very sight of money was a great rarity to as some one has well said : " When there is crooked Jacob, and changed him into her. So she spent a long, hard day tending one stalk of nightshade, there are fifty mari- Israel, who could prevail with God ; how He his cattle, and holding the bright coin, and golds and harebells ; when there is one took Joseph and David and made a mighty returned it again at night, quite content cloud thunder-charged, there are hundreds success of their lives. Then when He has with the day's pay. Long years afterward that stray across the heavens with the shown us all this proof, can we doubt His the brother was telling the story. He had glory of land and sky asleep in their bosom." power to take our weak and faulty lives and grown very wealthy. He had allowed the make them a success ? love of money to crowd out the Christ pas- God will use every boy and girl who is sion to which he was not a stranger. He Measuring by Birth and seeking to live the Christian life and to told the story to a friend with great glee, Character overcome the obstacles of temptation, laughing at his sister's childish simplicity. wrong habits, etc. The girls and boys His friend said quietly, " But that is all THE first element included in the right needed are good girls and boys. God needs you get too ; you hold your wealth to the way of measuring time is by birth. them, the church needs them, the com- end of the day of your life, then you give it A certain father taught his small son how munity needs them, the whole world needs up and have as little as before, and the to tell the time. When he could do this them ! Let us join the " Can " band and whole of your life is gone." And the man's hie father said, "I have taught you to know be among those whom God can use in the startled face showed that he quite under- the time of the day ; I must now teach you finishing of His work in the earth. stood. how to find out the time of your life." It In the accumulation of our treasures we was a wise prayer of the psalmist when he must never reckon without God. offered the petition, " So teach us to num- ber our days, that we may apply our hearts Missionary Volunteer Programme unto wisdom." It is well frequently, and Fourth Week especially at the close of the year, to Measuring by Fame measure our lives by the time of our birth. THE RECKONING OF TIME SOME people make the mistake of measur- There are two ways of measuring life, by ing time, or life, by reputation. They are birth and by new birth. Some one said to a Song Service. ambitious for honours and attentions that man of eighty-three, "How old art thou ? " Opening Exercises. flatter their vanity, and they count their He answered, " I am three years old." Introductory Talk. years according to the number of rounds " Three years old ? " was the reply. " Why, Talks : " Measuring by Wealth." they mount on the ladder of fame. you are eighty-three I " "No," he said, " Measuring by Fame." A man may live seventy years and may ' my body is eighty-three, but three years " Measuring by Misfortunes." have been a splendid success in a worldly ago I became a Christian, and not till then " Measuring by Birth and Char- way, amassing money, winning fame, get- did I really begin to live. I am three years acter." ting honour, his later years a blaze of glory, old." " Measuring by Service." his funeral one of magnificent pomp ; yet We trust that all here to-day have not Closing Exercises. the sum of his years, if he has spent them only been born, but born again,—born " not for only worldly gratification, for the seek- of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by ing of honours only, and has not used them the Word of God, which liveth and abideth Introductory Talk for the service of God or his fellow men,— forever." the sum of them is just equal to zero. On Another element included in the right " HOW old art thou ? " Gen. 47 : 8. the other hand, a man may spend only way of measuring time is by character. There is a right way and a wrong way of thirty years in fearing God and walking Life's true measure is not years, but epochs measuring a door, or a wall, or an arch, or after His commandments ; be may make of progress toward the ideal which God has a tower, or a field, or a farm, or the dis- no marked success according to the world's set for our attainment. As the tree's chroni- tance of a highway ; and so there is a running ; he may even be spoken of by cles are its rings, so those of a man are his right way and a wrong way of measuring others with a sort of pity, as a man who definite expansions, the inner circles of time, or the duration of our earthly exist- never has been successful, but all the while growth that show him coming more and ence. It is with reference to this higher he has lived honestly and faithfully in his more toward the perfection of full-grown meaning and form of measurement that we place. While other men have been fighting character—" unto the measure of the stature confront you this last Sabbath of the year for position, scrambling for honour, think- of a perfect man." with the tremendous question of our text ing meanwhile only of self, he has been giv- The scientists tell us of certain birds and ask : " How old art thou ?" We ing out his life in generous love, serving which in their wild state do not sing, but shall consider some of the elements in- others, doing good. He has not gotten on which have in their throats fine muscles, cluded in the right and the wrong way of in the world, and his hands are empty at the showing that if they had had favourable measuring time. last. Has his shorter life been more worth invironment they might have been good while than the man who lived to seventy singers. There is no one who has not years of age ? The Scripture says : " The more life muscles than he has learned to Measuring by Wealth world passeth away, and the lust thereof : use. We have capacities for obedience, but he that doeth the will of God abideth for service, for beautiful living, for use- SOME people make the mistake of meas- forever." fulness, which lie undeveloped in us. In- uring time by the amount of wealth they stead of letting ourselves slacken in the have gained. A young man will say, " The doing of a duty, we should set ourselves year 1928, or 1929, or 1930, was wasted." Measuring by Misfortunes ever a higher work, and every day add You ask him why, and he will tell you that a line to the quality of our life and the the times were very hard with him. He SOME people make the mistake of meas- worthiness of our character. made no money. Now it is all insincerity uring time, or life, by their sorrows and Each of us would do well to often ask to talk about money as if it had no value. misfortunes. But this is certainly a very ourselves these questions : Am I a better It is comfort, and refinement, and educa- gloomy way of reckoning it. The years soldier than when I enlisted ? Am I a tion, and ten thousand blessed surroundings when we lost money, or when friends died, better sailor than when I first shipped be- for you, your relatives, and your friends, or when we met misfortune, may stand out fore the mast? Am I a better man, a and a help to every good cause. Bonds and in the calendar of life, but we ought not to better Christian, than when I first began to mortgages and notes and leases and measure life as a whole by them. The follow Christ ? We certainly ought to be, sovereigns have their use, but none the less, brightest life will have its shadows, and the and it is proper for us to measure life by they make a very poor yardstick with which smoothest path its thorns. On the happiest our moral and spiritual development. to measure time by, or life by. brood the hawk pounces. There is no The wealthy owner of a large business escape from trouble of some kind. concern in Sweden had been a poor boy in a Measuring by Service country district tending cattle. One day " There is never a day so sunny but a he wanted to be away, and asked his sister little cloud appears. THE third element which we shall con- to tend the cattle for the day, promising to There was never a life so happy but sider in the right way of measuring time is let her hold for the day a small coin, cur- has had its time of tears." by service. John Bradford said that he ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••WMTITVVIIIIT.• it" DEC., 1930 MISSIONARY LEADER — —I4, 7 counted that day nothing at all in which he That brought the sunshine to one face ; bring to Him your thank-offering. You had not by tongue or pen done some good. No act most small are to make a gratitude offering of yourself. That helped some soul, and nothing He expects you to give your undivided " We live in deeds, not years : in thoughts, cost, energies to His work. not breaths ; Then count that day as worse than " Thousands upon thousands are perish- In feelings, not in figures on the dial. lost." ing in sin, and a lack of means is hindering We should count time by heart-throbs. the proclamation of the truth that is to be He most lives carried to all nations and kindreds and Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts tongues and people. There are men ready the best." Sabbath School to go forth as the Lord's messengers, but because of a lack of means in the treasury Our Lord's teaching is that only the life Missionary Exercises they cannot be sent to the places where the that is lost in love is really saved. The Department conducted by Anna L. Hindson, people are begging for some one to come illustration is in the little parable of the Union Sabbath School Secretary and teach them the truth. There are grain of wheat. " Except a grain of wheat many in our world who are longing to hear fall into the earth and die, it abideth by the word of life. But how can they hear itself alone ; but if it die, it beareth much (December 6) without a preacher? God is dishonoured fruit." It is easy to find the meaning of when for lack of means workers cannot be the parable in the life of the great Teacher A Heaven Sent Message sent to destitute fields. Let every un- Himself. The precious seed fell into the necessary expense be cut down. Let every earth and died, but it sprung up in glorious THIS message is from the pen of Sister family bring their tithes and offerings to life. Had Jesus saved His life from the White, in the last volume of the " Testi- the Lord." cross, He might have lived to a ripe old age, monies " given to the remnant church, and making all His years beautiful as the three comes to us with especial emphasis to-day : or four in which He wrought in such won- " We plead for the money that is spent (December 13) drous ways among the people. But there on needless things. You may think these would have been no cross lifted up to draw little sums do not amount to much, but The Faithfulness of an Indian all men to it by its power of love. There many littles will make a great whole. Believer would have been no fountain opened to Indulge in nothing that is simply for which earth's penitent millions could come display. Your money means the salvation BY MISSIONARY E. AL MELEEN with their polluted lives to find cleansing. of souls. Let there be systematic giving on There would have been no atonement for the part of all. Some may be unable to A POOR convert from heathenism often human guilt, no tasting of death by the give a large sum, but all can lay aside each puts to shame life-long Christians who have Bon of God for every man, no bearing by the week something for the Master. Let the been greatly blessed all their lives so that Lamb of God of the sin of the world. children act their part. Let parents teach they have never known want nor learned their children to save their pennies to give what real need is. In the mission fields we It seemed a waste of precious life when to the Lord. Through the self-denying often witness examples of this. The grati- Jesus died so young and in such shame. efforts of God's people others will be tude of those recently won from the dark- No doubt His friends spoke together in those brought into the faith. Unmistakable ness and degradation of heathenism, seems days when He was lying in the grave of the evidences point to the nearness of the end. to exceed that of those who have never ex- great loss to the world His dying was. Per- " We are on the very verge of the time of perienced what it is to live without Christ haps they thought He bad been imprudent trouble, and perplexities that are scarcely and the blessings that accompany a knowl- and reckless—almost throwing away His dreamed of are before us. intense earnest- edge of Him and His teachings. life. It seemed to thin; b all that His early ness should now take possession of us. Some time ago a missionary was called death was a sad loss to'the world, a wasting Heavenly angels have long been waiting to visit the home of one of our poor church of most precious life. But it was not a loss for human agents—the members of the members where death seemed about to claim nor a waste; He lost His life, but it be- church--to co-operate with them in the the mother. It was eleven o'clock on a cold came the seed of the world's hope and joy. great work to be done. They are waiting winter night when he arrived. The home We understand it now. Christianity is the for you. So vast is the field, so compre- was a thatched hut, consisting of a single outcome of that " waste," heaven is the hensive the design, that every sanctified room, dimly lighted by a smoking and fruit of the Redeemer's sacrifice. heart will be pressed into service as an flickering wick protruding from a small tin The parable carries in it the law of life instrument of divine power. receptacle filled with thick oil. The hus- for all of us. Jesus went on to say, " He " The great day of the Lord is near, it is band and father held in his arms a partly that loveth his life loseth it ; and he that near, and hasteth greatly.' Every hour, covered infant. On mats and rags on the hateth his life in this world shall keep it every minute, is precious. We have no earthen floor slept two older children. On unto life eternal." All true life must bear time to spend in self-gratification. All another mat lay the ill mother, cold and the brand of the cross. If we love our life around us there are souls perishing in but poorly covered with such substitutes and try to save it, we shall lose it. If we sin. for blankets as were available. A small keep ourselves from the bard service, or the " We are to place in the Lord's treasury quantity of glowing charcoal in an earthen costly sacrifice to which duty calls us, we all the means that we can spare. For this fireplace made an almost fruitless effort to may seem to be gaining by it. We spare means, needy, unworked fields are calling. add to her comfort. The husband's mother, ourselves much toil and much service. We From many lands is sounding the cry, a dirty, ignorant, and superstitious old have more time for ease, for leisure, for Come over and help us.' Our church Hindu, had come to assist her daughter-in- pleasure. We have the money in the bank members should feel a deep interest in home law. But as is too often the case in India, which we might have paid out in helping and foreign missions. Great blessings will she was ignorant of all that makes for com- others. We have saved our life. Yes ; but come to them as they make self-sacrificing fort and help to the sick, especially under it is the saving which is losing. efforts to plant the standard of truth in such forbidding circumstances. new territory. The money invested will On the arrival of the missionary the ill "If you sit down at set of sun bring rich returns. woman's face brightened with joy and And count the acts that you have done, " God gives to us regularly, freely, abun- gratitude. " I wanted to see the teacher be- And counting, find dantly. Every earthly blessing is from fore I die. Now I can pay him my tithe and One self-denying act, one word His band. What if the Lord should cease die in peace," and so saying she took from That eased the heart of him that heard, to bestow His gifts upon us? What a cry among her coverings a small sum of money One glance most kind of wretchedness, suffering, and want would which she handed to the missionary. " But That fell like sunshine where it went, go up from the earth. We need daily the you must forgive me," she added. " We are Then you may count that hour well unfailing flow of Jehovah's goodness. He poor and in my sickness I needed food and spent. calls upon us to return to Him a portion some other things that I would not have of the abundance He has bestowed on us. needed had I been well, and we spent a por- "But if, through all the livelong day, " I point you to Calvary. Think of the tion of that which we should have given to You've cheered no heart by yea or nay ; Saviour's matchless love. While we were the Lord. I am thankful that I have lived If through it all, yet sinners, Christ died to save us from till you came here so that I could give Him You've nothing done, which you can eternal death. In return for the great love this." trace, wherewith Christ has loved you, you are to Such faithfulness touched the mission- 8 MISSIONARY LEADER Y\- k1 DEC., 1930 ary's heart. He accepted the tithe, but As we recount God's goodness to us dur- also the light of truth. New doors are returned an equal sum as a gift to the ing the year which is now closing, let us opening, new fields invite us, and other poor. With the help of a physician bring to Him a thank offering that will be hands are stretching out for the Bread of whom he called, and careful nursing, she used in carrying to these waiting people the Life. who thought that she was suffering her message that has done so much for us, re- last illness still lives with her husband membering, that " it is more blessed to give Seventy-eight years ago the first Sabbath and children, faithful in the message. than to receive. school in this denomination was organised, and what a source of blessing this institu- tion has been I What a wonderful avenue it provided us for helping the needy fields I (December 20) (December 27) But should we not all strive for deeper Many Islands Still Waiting consecration and more liberal giving by the THE THIRTEENTH SABBATH entire membership of both Sabbath school BY PASTOR A. G. STEWART and church, and thus help to hasten the A Movement That Is Moving spread of the message and the preparation of "THE isles shall wait for His law." a people in all lands of the earth for the soon- BY PASTOR A. G. STEWART Isa. 42 : 4. Looking over the two groups of coming Saviour? Let us make such a con- islands to be benefited by our Thirteenth secration to Him to-day. Sabbath school offering on the last Sabbath " AND He turned unto His disciples, and of this year, we cannot help but feel im- said privately, Blessed are the eyes which pressed with the thought that there are see the things that ye see : for I tell you, still many islands waiting for the mes- that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have senger of God. Special Hymn for the Thirteenth not seen them ; and to hear those things Sabbath Though we have been established as a which ye hear, and have not heard them." missionary body in the New Hebrides about Luke 10 : 23, 24. sixteen years, there are still many islands Melanesia Now Is Waiting in that group where we have not yet begun to If the measure of spiritual and physical labour. The people on some of these islands blessings received by those who sought the [Tune : No. 641 in " Christ in Song ; " have been calling to us for years to visit Saviour's personal ministry while here in No. 304 in "Advent Hymnal."] them with the same message as has helped this world, should be a cause of real happi- other people on other islands, but another ness and joy to those early disciples, surely Melanesia now is waiting, year is soon to close and we have done the opening doors, the outstretched hands, Bee her whit'ning fields to-day. nothing for them. and the remarkable providences in God's Precious grain around is wasting ; work at this time must be a source of great Will God's workers still delay ? On one of the large islands in the New inspiration and encouragement to God's Precious Saviour, keep us faithful, Hebrides another society has been working To know that people in these days. Gathering many sheaves for Thee ; for many years, but a large section of the Seventh-day Adventists are carrying for- May we each deserve Thy " Well done " people refuse to invite it to come among ward Christian work in more countries than When at last Thy face we see. them. They have, however, sent word to any other Protestant denomination, that our missionaries that they want the "Sab- we are sending out more missionaries each bath Mission." The resident magistrate year than any other Protestant society, and Through the Territ'ry of New Guinea on that island has told us of his desire to giving more mission offerings per capita Help us glean with constant care„ see us come and commence work among than any other evangelical church, should That each year itycleasing hundreds the natives, but so far we have not gone. be a cause for great encouragement. For Christ's coini:,1g may prepare. Whatever may have been the cause of our Help to find those lost in darkness, not going in the past, the reason to-day While many other missionary societies With your prayers, your gifts, your men, seems to be a financial one. For had we are calling back their missionaries and That there all may hear the message the means available, we have workers pre- making severe retrenchments by curtailing Ere the Master comes again. pared to go and a place in mind in which to their work and cutting down their budgets, station them. Surely some one that reads Seventh-day Adventists are sending out From our Hebridean brothers these words or hears them read will be new workers, entering new fields, acquiring Swells a cry to Him who saves, stirred to do something to help change this new languages, and generally extending the For the multitudes there sinking situation. work. For all these omens of progress we sincerely thank God and take courage. Rapidly to Christless graves. On another island there are people wait- This, however, is not done because of In Malekula, Santo, Ambrym, ing who called to us to come to them ten or superior talent or greater wisdom, neither Thousands blindly grope for God ; more years ago, and we have not gone. is it because we have greater wealth, But Help us speed to them the message, Some, no doubt, who made the call then, it is, undoubtedly, because of the conviction Ere they sleep beneath the sod. have passed away without having heard the that the second coming of Christ is near, message, but the responsibility rests upon us and it is our God-given responsibility to Melanesia now -is calling for not going or not having sent some one proclaim a message that will " make ready For your prayers, your gifts, your men, to them. How long must they wait ? a people prepared to meet their God." That the work be quickly finished Our Overflow Object This message is now being proclaimed in Ere our Master comes again. 139 countries of earth, in 384 languages of Precious Saviour, keep us faithful, Then when we look over that vast field the world, and during the last four years re- Gathering many sheaves for Thee, known as the Mandated Territory of New sulted in the baptism of over 100,000 souls. That a host from all these islands Guinea we see scores of islands and thou- One of the greatest organisations in this May prepare to welcome Thee. sands of villages waiting for "His law." world-wide work is the Sabbath school, —Adapted. Already many of these people have heard a which is a pioneering agency in the mission little of the "Sabbath Mission " and have fields as well as a means of Bible study and commenced to express their desire for us to missionary giving for the members in the go among them and teach them the message. homeland. The Missionary Leader Our few workers in that group are writing The largest Sabbath school ever conducted PUBLISHED BY THE to us asking us what they shall do. They in the world, no doubt, was during the AUSTRALASIAN UNION CONFERENCE OF want to know if there will be more workers recent General Conference held at San SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS available should they go to visit these people Francisco, when over 10,000 of our mem- and find a suitable site among them. Dear " Mizpah," Wahroonga, N.S.W., bers met in that city, speaking in many Australia brethren, what shall our response be? Our languages and representing a world-wide reply will be indicated largely by our offer- Editor: Anna L. Hindson work. ings. While we are to pray the Lord of the Assistant Editor: Viola M. Rogers. harvest to send forth workers into His wait- But with all this progress there comes a — — ing harvest field, we are also to send forth most insistent cry from those who are still Printed for the Australasian Conf. 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