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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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k.Though an acquaintance and friend camein, he received only a handshake and What can I do for you? and again hewas diving into the pile of papers con-stantly accumulating upon his desk. Ought we not to expect of Christiansan earnestness at least equal to thatgiven to their business? When one be-comes in dead earnest about a matter itis then that he gets busy, and some-thing is done. Ye shall seek Me, andfind Me, when ye shall search for Mewith all your heart. As to their collections, it is by nomeans a penny collection. That is aword I wish had never been associatedwith the Sunday school. It seems toomuch like gathering up the smallest andmost insignificant for the Lord. In-stead of His portion being meanest itshould be the BEST. Whilst there arenot a few one-twelfth anna pieces (onesixth of a cent) find their way into thecollection, yet in the aggregate it was asurprise to us all. Do not understand Idepreciate the small gifts, for Jesus com- 598 THE MISSIONARY VISITOR (October, 1905
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October, 1905) THE MISSIONARY VISITOR 599 mended the two mites above the goldand silver pieces finding their way intothe treasury, and so may He look onsome of these twelfth-anna pieces, com-ing from penury, as being more thansome much larger pieces, coming fromthe abundance. I was exceedinglygratified to learn this fact on cominghome: Our Chicago Sunday school hasbeen a mission school up to July first ofthis year. Last year it raised three hun-dred dollars. I feel like writing thesethree words all with capitals. I havebeen associated with this school since itsorganization, and from its very infancytwo and three cents per capita was theaverage collection, and the good workhas steadily gone onward and upward,until to-day we have an average Sundayattendance for the year of over two hun-dred and an average Sunday collection ofover five dollars, also one of the firstschools in our Brotherhood. But this is getting a long way fromIndia. Let us go back to the feature offamiliarity with the B

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