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Title: Missionary Visitor, The (1905)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Brethren's General Missionary and Tract Committee
Subjects: Church of the Brethren Priodicals Church of the Brethren- Missions
Publisher: Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House
Contributing Library: Bridgewater College, Alexander Mack Memorial Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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we would not do justice tothis great work in Chicago, as we re-member that the first twenty-five dollarsraised was by a few of the scholars en-rolled in our school, the original invest-ment of each pupil being one bright,new nickel, with fewer opportunities ofincrease by far than the majority livingoutside the great cities. We mention but one instance of thelarge increase accomplished with an in-vestment of one dime, which, while itis above the average, proves what it ispossible to do with so* small an amountwhen the little hands and feet arespurred on by that love that loves ev-erybody, reinforced by a consecrated fa-ther and a devout mother. When ac-counting time came the three diligentworkers referred to* had accumulatedjust eleven dollars each—one hundredand ten times as much as they had start-ed with. Do you know how much goodthis thirty-three dollars has accom-plished in the past, is accomplishing atthe present and will accomplish in the April, 1905) THE MISSIONARY VISITOR 197
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Interior Sunday School Extension No. 2.Exterior Sunday School Extension No. 1. Interior Sunday School Extension No.Exterior Sunday School Extension No. 198 THE MISSIONARY VISITOR (April, 1905 future? No, God alone, with the angelsas His recorders, can compute the finalresult, and then only when we are allcalled to that last judgment day, for theinfluence of these gifts to the Lordscause must certainly extend throughmany years to come. And all this great work is being donewithout the least sign of pride—in thathumble, quiet way in which Gods chil-dren always work. In glancing over thereports received from every section ofthe country, one will notice almost with-out exception, the tenor of regret atnot being able to contribute more to thisfund, with a consciousness that theirmite is not all that should be expectedof them. They, like the raindrop, fall-ing here and there, that makes themighty river, whose onward rush knowsno obstacle, have their eyes and pur-poses fixed on one common o

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