Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . d that gets no further than home. St Some Christians pray as though theirhearts were bleeding for the heathen,but it does not take close observationto discover their pocketbooks neverbleed for them. A pastors wife wentamong the members soliciting funds formissions and said, Ministers are notexpected to give. Yet she, with her hus-band, was one of the wealthiest membersin the congregation. She wonders, too,why her Christian effort is not more ap-preciated. Some argue that South America is nota good missionary field. It may be alittle difficult to win souls to C
Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . d that gets no further than home. St Some Christians pray as though theirhearts were bleeding for the heathen,but it does not take close observationto discover their pocketbooks neverbleed for them. A pastors wife wentamong the members soliciting funds formissions and said, Ministers are notexpected to give. Yet she, with her hus-band, was one of the wealthiest membersin the congregation. She wonders, too,why her Christian effort is not more ap-preciated. Some argue that South America is nota good missionary field. It may be alittle difficult to win souls to Christthere, but if the experience of theMethodists in Brazil is worth anything,then these converts are worth goingafter. Edmund E. Talley, of BelloHorizonte, Brazil, reports in Go For-ward that last year the membershipaveraged $ per member for the workof Christ. St Who would ever think of sending justone person or two out to hold the fortagainst a thousand or a ten thousand?This would not be done in war, in busi- LOOK ON THIS. Saginaw Church, Michigan. What stronger contrast can be made than is pictured on this page and the followingone! Up in Michigan a funeral procession stopped long enough at the church door tocatch a perpetual glimpse at the sad procession following a loved one to her restingplace. The deceased was Edith Holden, president of the Christian Workers Meeting, andSunday-school teacher in the Saginaw church. The casket is laden with flowers, the bestexpression of tender memories which now fill the minds of her many friends. In thebereavement there is hope, for she believed on the Lord and loved Him dearly. The next picture shows the funeral of a Fetish Priest in West Africa. The nativeshave imitated the coffin of the white man, and the artist of the English Periodical fromwhich the illustration was taken engraved the text on the coffin so as to add force to thescene. What sadder words can be written over any coffin than No Hope? And thesepoor Africans as well
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