Jubilee Historical Sketch Of The Womans Synodical Missionary Society

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Download or read book Following the Great Command written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Following the Great Command: Being the Jubilee Number Forty-Ninth Annual Report of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of" was never truer than in the history of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. The slogan of "Two cents a week and a prayer" which was given at first as the condition of membership was as faithful in the second part as in the first, and though the "prayer" was never written into either constitution or by-laws, it was for many years universally mentioned and insisted upon in soliciting new members, and prayer has been a distinctive feature of the work and a vital source of success all through the years. How many women, in the quiet of their homes, send up a petition at the noon hour for the missionaries and the home workers! When the Jubilee Campaign was started in 1915 all realized that without much intercessory prayer the aims of the Jubilee would not be reached, not that God needed to be pled with, but that those who prayed might get a clearer view of their part in the work. So the League of Intercessors was inaugurated that special thought should be made throughout our constituency for the success of the movement. Pledge cards were provided, stating the "purpose to give time from day to day to quiet, unhurried thought about God and His world-wide purpose and to definite prayer for the progress of His kingdom." These signed cards were to be sent to the President Emeritus, who gladly took charge of them. They came in large numbers at first but there has been a falling off during the past year. We are, however, thankful to be able to make known the fact that over thirteen thousand women have enrolled themselves as members of the League of Intercessors since October, 1914. The increase in number of missionaries and in money shows that God's promises have been kept. From time to time various subjects for special prayer have been suggested in the "Friend." If all of our members had joined in these "definite prayers for the progress of His Kingdom" what greater success might have been wrought! This pledged service was not to be entered into lightly without thought of the real meaning, - "quiet, unhurried thought about God and His purpose," not to turn God's thought, but ours towards that "purpose," for the more we pray the more we will desire to help, and the more earnestly will we work for the coming of that Kingdom, realizing more fully what a wonderful privilege it is to be "laborers together with Him." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.