The Story of a Liberty) Bond HOW IT FELL INTO THE LORD’S TREASURY AND THE BLESSING IT MAY BRING TO MANY A Suggestion to the Tithe Giver
send out over a million pages of tract literature. The full results will never be known until we reach the other world, but. it is certain that hundreds, if not thou sands, of pastors and churches have been stimulated to intercessory prayer, and many revivals have been started. There were thousands of pastors and others who responded to the ‘Call,” promising prayer. \ The one who sent this bond had pre viously spent •several years,» in Africa as a missionary, pouring out her life there until her health broke down, and then came home to tell the story of Africa’s need, and finally went to New Mexico to work in a mission there, where now every week souls are being saved; and not a week goes by that she herself does not spend one or two days or more in fasting and prayer for a world-wide revival. One tenth of the income of the Great Commission Prayer League is used for foreign missionary work other than its own, and this $100 liberty bond given by the New Mexico Home missionary was sent by the League as a part of its tithe (through the Moody Church, where one Sunday morning in Febru ary the story of the gift was told by Mr. Woolley to the public congrega tion),—was sent to Pastor William Fetler, of Philadelphia, to be applied by him to his work of Russian Evan gelization, with the understanding that when he came to sell it the Great Com mission Prayer League would be given the option of its re-purchase. The Lea gue has re-purchased and has now sent
During the spring of 1917 a Chicago servant girl, who is a member of the Moody jChurch, gave $3- to the Great Commission Prayer League, which, along with other contributions, helped to pay for the printing and wide cir culation of a “Call, to Prayer.” A home missionary in New Mexico saw that “Call to Prayer” and was deeply moved by it. She was receiving ONLY $35 A MONTH SALARY, but she sent $5 to help circulate the “Call,” then $25, then wrote: “Only a few days ago I came to the place where I could let go of everything for Christ’s sake. One thing had been in my way for a long time, and that was that I thought 1 had to hold on to a little - money, for any case of emergency that might arise.” And then, without human suggestion, but obeying only Christ, she sent a precious $100 liberty bond, represent ing her savings of the previous one or two years; and then, as though this were not enough, she sent an entire month’s salary of $35, in order to pro vide postage so that a copy of the “Call” could be sent to each pastor of her entire denomination throughout the United Sates-—over 2,200. The example of her self-denying devotion to Jesus was published during December and so inspired others to give that, under God’s blessing ,it became possible during the first three months of the present year to send out nearly 100,000 additional “Calls” to the same number of pastors and missionaries in all parts of the earth; and besides, to
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