. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . o not let us for-get the pilgrim fathers of to-day. Who will stand at the judgment and say: lord. I gaze too muchfor Thy REMIN1SCENSES OFBy Rev. Edward Farmington, New JOSEPH WARD D. DlSBROWHampshire THERE is no better illustrationof the variety of Christianapostleship than is to be seenin comparing the temperament anddisposition of David Brainerd andJoseph Ward, the first and latestgreat American missionaries. A man ofa ff a i rs, aman amongmen, and aprophet ofin tensef a i t h inmankind aswell as inGod, wasDr. i s con-stant p
. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . o not let us for-get the pilgrim fathers of to-day. Who will stand at the judgment and say: lord. I gaze too muchfor Thy REMIN1SCENSES OFBy Rev. Edward Farmington, New JOSEPH WARD D. DlSBROWHampshire THERE is no better illustrationof the variety of Christianapostleship than is to be seenin comparing the temperament anddisposition of David Brainerd andJoseph Ward, the first and latestgreat American missionaries. A man ofa ff a i rs, aman amongmen, and aprophet ofin tensef a i t h inmankind aswell as inGod, wasDr. i s con-stant prayerand desirewas forGods king-dom follow-ing textswere favor-ites of his:Speak un-to Israelthat they gof o r wa r d, Go in andpossess theland, IAm hathsent Me. ^H i s great Jy*hopefulness nmade him vsympathet-i c withyouth, and caused him to take intense interestin the business, social and stateaffairs in the new territory of Da-kota. He believed in enjoying all that is good in this life, while he longed o: things better to come. His. life companion and co-worker was anoble woman who was accustomedto luxury and the highest New Eng-land culture, and although theirearlier work in Dakota was markedby great hardships, they knew als<how to endure luxury )so as no* I suffer fromit. and howto use it inbuilding andliter aturemade theircom mo d-ious home adeli ghtfulplace, wherehospitalitywas realizedin the high-est sense. Theyknew how toshare thegood thingsof life in anideal way. Once whilesitting in abarberschair lover-heard a re-puted infi-del say: Itake nostock inwhat i scalledChris-tianity. butif Dr. Ward is a Christian I believein that kind for while my family wassick with an infectious disease, noone came near us, but a person wh< ibrought each days supply of foodto our back gate every night afterdark, and it was sometime after we 7H^ YOUNG PEOPLES DEPARTMENT 171 were released from quarantine, he-fore we knew our benefactor to beDr
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