Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . e our profession isbeing made known we find several eagerto know all, while on the other handwe find plenty who are trying to downus. Now note the proposed plan of this lit-tle band of believers without a do not propose to sit down andlet others walk over them, but are try-ing to do what they can themselves,and are following a most excellentmethod, one within reach of everysmall group without a minister: Ouridea is for the brethren to get togetheras early as possible and arrange to renta room as near the centre of Cincinnatias possible. Then sele
Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . e our profession isbeing made known we find several eagerto know all, while on the other handwe find plenty who are trying to downus. Now note the proposed plan of this lit-tle band of believers without a do not propose to sit down andlet others walk over them, but are try-ing to do what they can themselves,and are following a most excellentmethod, one within reach of everysmall group without a minister: Ouridea is for the brethren to get togetheras early as possible and arrange to renta room as near the centre of Cincinnatias possible. Then select several goodspeakers and hold meetings every night,to make known to those in darknessthe light of salvation; and when themeetings close, close with a love do not stop, but go right aheadand build up a mission. There are plentyof people right here in our city, who donot know there is a Savior. We are will-ing to do all we can at any cost. Wecan talk and hesitate and wait, but theSpirit says, Work while it is yet DR. JOHN D. PATON. Eighty-four years old, seventy-twoyears a Christian, and * thirty-eightyears a missionary to the New He-brides, is the brief record that may bewritten over the life of John G. Paton,who died at Melbourne, Australia, lastJanuary. He was born at Kirkmahoe,Scotland, May 24, 1824, accepted Christat the age of twelve, and in 1858 waspermitted to carry out one of his firstresolves when he came to Christ,— tobe a missionary. He went to the NewHebrides and suffered many tribes among which he laboredwere naked cannibals who had killedmore than one missionary precedinghim. Often he and his family were inperils of violent death, yet with a sub-lime trust in God, that counted not hislife dear, he labored on till victory was the victory, do you ask?The islands where he labored are trans-formed; howling savages have becomehumble believers in Jesus Christ. In-stead of homes of terror and wretch-edness, peace and love reig
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