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A Pioneer Home Missionary Venture B y J oseph T. L arsen or the past ten years, the writer has done a home missionary work in the great rural fields of the West. Ten summers have been devoted without regular salary to home missionary work in seven states. The work done has been of a union or community character in an interdenom inational way, working with denominations so far as possible. Some o f the work has been isolated by distance from regular churches. It is estimated that there are approxi mately 5,000,000 unreached people in twelve western states in perhaps 10,000 rural towns and communities. Six sum mers have been spent in work in California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and Montana, majoring in the three last named states. A total of about thirty^seven Sun day-schools have been organized, helping from 1,000 to 1,500 people in the study of the Bible, and resulting in the winning of hundreds for Christ in the series of meet ings held. One and a half years were spent in Montana, covering about 10,000 miles of that state, besides holding meetings in ten of the larger cities. Some of the converts have since entered the ministry in various denominations. With this as a past experience, and with the vision of God as to what might be done, if funds were provided for the necessary expenses o f perhaps $50.00 a month for workers, we might place scores of workers in the rural West, in fields now unevangel ized. “To preach the gospel in the regions beyond, . . . and not to boast in another man’s line o f things made ready to our hand” (2 Cor. 10:16) is our plan. To “send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared” (Neh. 8:10) is our plea. We have reached the regions beyond and given out thousands of Scripture portions, Gos pels of John, and tracts. These have been bought, or in many instances donated. Though denominations have done a noble work, there have been many rural sections where they have not had time or workers to enter. This work is strictly fundamental in doc trine, free from fads or fanaticism, spir itual in its discernment of fields, practical in its methods, and economical in its ven ture. The Secretary-Treasurer is Rev. Ford E. Brock, Jr., Breckenridge, Colo. Recom mendations o f fields, funds; or workers will be gratefully appreciated and cheer fully acknowledged. Address: Joseph T. Larsen, 3033 Columbus Ave., Minneapolis, Minn.
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Robert Moffat of Kuruman B y D avid J. D eane
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“ The record of a life like that o f Robert Moffat,” writes the author, “ can never be devoid of interest until all appreciation for noble deeds and patient endeavor becomes extinct in the heart of man. Till then, our pulses will quicken and our enthusiasm kindle as we read o f dangers encountered and overcome, of the true courage that could undismayed encounter the king of beasts roaming on the African plain, and o f passing the time with savage chiefs, beneath the spears and clubs of whose war riors thousands had been slain. Our sym pathy is awakened as stories of sickness and suffering, of hunger and terrible thirst, of trying disappointments, continued year af ter year, are related. Anon, gratitude causes the tear to start to our eye as we witness the love that prompts the effort to win the heathen to the Saviour, and see the once benighted ones clothed and subdued, learning in mind and heart the truth of the gospel. Moffat’s life is evidence o f the dynamic power of the gospel.” How ac curate a word-picture this is o f the life of a pioneer missionary! “ Savages . . . . suffering . . . . disappointments,” yet in the end triumph—all are recorded in nar rative so captivating that the reader will not lay down the book till the last page is finished. 191 pages. Pickering & Inglis. Cloth. Price $1.00. Many have written of the life .of William Carey, a man of exceptional breadth of missionary vision, but here is an account so simple in its style that it may be put into the hands o f young people at an age when they usually shrink from dull biog raphy, yet it is by no means juvenile nor beneath the mind o f adults. The story is told in forty-one short chapters, each teem ing with life and local color, with an abun dance of conversation that holds all the charm of fiction. There are intimate sketches of the boyhood o f the great man, accounts of his struggle for livelihood and education, and glimpses of the sorrow and trial and suffering through which he pushed toward the accomplishment of his life’s task—-the establishment of a great center of evangelism in heathen India. 223 pages. Pickering & Inglis. Cloth. Price $ 1 . 00 . Dan Crawford of Luanza B y J ohn H awthorn Sunday-school teachers and young peo ple’s workers will welcome this short new life-sketch o f that very original Scotchman who, filled with the power o f the Spirit of God and zealous in soul-winning, forced his way across a savage continent and lighted the dark recesses of Central Africa with the light o f the gospel. While the sketch is far from exhaustive, it presents the important facts in a style that is easy to read, yet instructive and stimulating. 96 pages. Pickering & Inglis. Cloth. Price 50 cents. William Carey of India B y P ercy H. J ones
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