“And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament;
and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars forever and ever.”
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Richmond Va„ as Sccond-Claas Matter.
Vol. LIX. APRIL, 1909. No. 10
THE GLORIOUS TASK BEFORE OUR PEOPLE.
“WE CAN AND WE WILL."
Tho books of the Foreign Mission Board
will close at midnight on April thirtieth.
All contributions which are not reported
in Richmond by that time will have to be
credited on the new year. Let all treas¬
urers make it a point to be on time. The
task to be accomplished in these remain¬
ing weeks is enough to stir the hearts of
all our great hosts and arouse them to the
most intense endeavor. It is a large task,
but we are a great people and we have a
great God as our refuge and strength.
The following table shows what has been
done up to the fifteenth of March, and
what remains to be done In each State:
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Georgia . . .
..$S0,000
$31,368
$48,632
Virginia ...
.. 60,000
27,395
32,605
S. Carolina
. 38,000
21,710
16,290
Missouri . .
.. 25,000
21,353
3,647
Kentucky .
.. 10,000
18,146
21',854
N. Carolina
. 45,000
14,680
30,320
Alabama . .
. . 45,000
12,623
32,377
Texas ....
.. 60,000
11,118
48,882
Tennessee
.. 25,000
10,561
14,436
Mississippi
.. 35,000
7,527
27,473
Maryland ..
.. 9,000
7,31(7
1,690
Arkansas . .
.. 13,000
3,227
9,773
Louisiana .
.. 10,000
2,617
7,383
Florida . . .
.. 8,000
2,332
5,668
D. C .
.. 4,000
2,155
1,845
Oklahoma .
. . 3,000
S58
2,142
Other sources
2,904
$500,000
$197, 8S7
$305,017
This puts the work to be accomplished
clearly before
иэ.
The question of vital
importance is. How can it be done? We
make a few suggestions. Other plans
will occur to those who are earnestly con¬
sidering the problem:
First, let us
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all be much in prayer.
We cannot emphasize too much the im¬
portance of doing this work on our knees.
Miss Heck has recently shown how God
has answered prayer for missions. She
says: "Look back a hundred years. The
Church of God is on its knees. This is its
prayer, ‘Lord, open the doors of the
closed lands that we may enter with Thy
gospel/ In fifty years every great coun¬
try is opened. The missionary may enter
if he will. But the Church is still kneel¬
ing. The petition is: ‘Lord, give us mis¬
sionaries/ Before the close of the next
fifty years 5,000 young men and women
stand on the shores of America, pleading
to be sent to foreign lands.”
The great prayer of to-day is for means.
We have not the money with which to
send those who are ready to go. During
these remaining days let the constant
prayer be going up that God will open the
hearts of thousands of His people to con¬
tribute out of their abundance, or out of
their poverty, if necessary, the money that
is so much needed.
Nor must we forget in the midst of our
Intense desire for this petition to continue
to pray for the missionaries at the front.
Above all, let us pray that God will clothe
His servants on the foreign fields with
power from on high. Let us plead for a
pentecost on all our foreign fields. Im¬
portant as the need of money is, far more
important is God’s blessing on the work
and the workers.
