At home with the Hakkas in South China . rk for the women of China, and teach our girls schoolsThese Bible women can come close to the people, for they reach thehomes. I hope many of our young ladies will feel a call to givethemselves to this work. I almost forgot one other need. We must have young men whoare missionaries at heart, to be mission treasurers,— men who willlook after mission funds in a consecrated manner, and keep theaccounts of the workers. So some of you must study bookkeepingand business methods. But let me again state that all who come out IAKKAS IN SOUTH CHINA Page 63 3 do t
At home with the Hakkas in South China . rk for the women of China, and teach our girls schoolsThese Bible women can come close to the people, for they reach thehomes. I hope many of our young ladies will feel a call to givethemselves to this work. I almost forgot one other need. We must have young men whoare missionaries at heart, to be mission treasurers,— men who willlook after mission funds in a consecrated manner, and keep theaccounts of the workers. So some of you must study bookkeepingand business methods. But let me again state that all who come out IAKKAS IN SOUTH CHINA Page 63 3 do this line of work should be earnest Christians, and first, last,nd all the time, missionaries who love lost men and women and/ho are willing to help them to a knowledge of salvation. All should have studied long in the school of patience. China3 no place to come to learn patience. Each one should learn to con-rol his tongue, to think calmly, to be considerate of others andympathetic toward all. Missionaries should be able to put to use. CANDIDATES FOR BAPTISM ill the knowledge they possess. It will do you no good to have beenthe brightest boy in school, if you cannot tell what you other qualification of great importance is sociability. Mission-tries will never be successful if they shut themselves away fromyerybody. To have friends, we must be friendly. We must mix4ith people if we wish to win them to Jesus. We must have the best qualified, most talented, most conse-nted young men and women from the home field. I read, the otheray, of an old minister who said to a young man just ready to sailor China: I am surprised to think of your going to China. Why,fou would do well at home! I want to tell you that that oldbrother had a wrong idea of this work altogether. We need the best>ver here. I believe that all the workers sent out to heathen landshould have a trial and be tested out before they are sent. We have many things to praise God for as we see how rapidlyhe work
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