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Shall Missions Advance Too?
An Urgent Command and a Practical Program
of conditions as they actually exist on mission fields. Advance in prayer. Remembering that th.e Word has said: “Pray ye’ therefore the Lord of the harvest, that HE will- send forth laborers into his harvest,” attendants gt these mission ary conferences will be helped in en tering upon an intelligent prayer pro gram, in which emphasis will be upon God’s own mighty working. Advance in giving. Each of the churches uniting in this effort sup ports one or more missionaries. In the Church of the Open Door, for instance, 78 members of the church are missionaries, arid of that number,, the eh Ur ch supports 36. Many of these men and .women were trained in the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. Too many Christians, hearing ru mors of the difficulty in s e n d i n g money abroad, feel that nothing can be done now for the cause of foreign missions. But the vast majority of missionaries "are unaffected by these restrictions. And they are suffering needlessly because their friends at. home, through fear of present or fu ture conditions, are withholding the Lord’s funds. In the coming meetings,'the fol lowing. missionary agencies- will' be represented: Africa Inland Mission, American Mission to Lepers, Bible ■ House of Los Angeles, Bolivian Indian Mission, Central American Mission, Ceylon and .Indian General Mission, ,[Continued on Page lib ]
the country’s need, Christians Should go into training for their part in Wit nessing “to every creature.” In an effort to stimulate missionary interest in the Los Angeles vicinity, at least five missionary conferences, meeting simultaneously, will be held April 3 to 12. The center for this tes timony will be the Church of the Open Door, Los Angelas; where the week’s opportunities will be available to the students of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, whose regular classes will be dismissed during the conference. But the program will be in no Sense a purely local affair. Other cooperating churches include: Calvary Church, Placentia; Calvary Church, Santa Ana; Lake Avenue Congregational Church, Pasadena, ,and San Gabriel Union GhUrch, San Gabriel. Sharing mission ary speakers assembled for the ten- day period, these churches will con-, duct special sessions in their own au ditoriums. The conference committees, believe that, so fár as world-wide missions are concerned, advance must be along three particular lines: Advance in knowledge. In specially prepared b 0 o t h s and halls, where stereopticon views, curios, and litera-, ' turé representing each of a number of mission fields may be enjoyed, per sons who attend the conference^ will obtain personal and first-hand infor, mation from missionaries who have labored in these fields. The plan pro vides :for leisurely and thorough study
■y yiRTUALLY the whole world Is \ / at war. Because of hostilities \ ' between nations, doors to many mission fields have been barred. In some cases; missionaries. have been ejected or else severely limited in the Christian work they are allowed to do. Passports .for the travel of "most mis sionaries from t h e i r homelands to their chosen mission fields have been denied. Almost everywhere, the usual programs of missionary activity have g had to be seriously altered or else wholly abandoned. Viewed from some angles,' the cause of world-wide mis sions is at a standstill. The q u e s t i o n now is: Shall the Christian forget about missions until the war is won? To take this position would be to act, in direct disobedience to the Lord Jesus Christ who said: “Go ye into all . the World and preach the gospel to every creature”—-for He did not add, “ except when hindered by war.” Suqh an attitude would mean the settling irito a deadly apathy. It is all too evi dent that a nation suffers when there is any lack7of alertness on the part of her military leaders, and the church of Jesus Christ suffers ' immeasurably more when her members postpone or ignore the meeting ot spi ituai*. *t s of - the millions who perish without knowledge of Christ. Now is the time for missionary in terest to be accelerated. Profiting by' the example of the ready response Which America’s youth is giving to
Missionary Rally Dates: April 3 to 12, 1942
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