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68 Apostle to Islam Seeking Recruits and Funds
women missionaries by 1905. In 1Iarch of that year the Zwemer family left
for their second furlough in America. Though on leaving they little realized
the fact, it would be several years before they returned to their home in
Bahrein.
U!'on arrival in the United States they went to Holland, 1lichigan and
tOOK up at once the task of raising money in the churches for the Arabian
Mission and other work of the Reformed Board. He !'ro!'osed at this time
a system of s!,ecific su!'port of missionaries by individual churches. He
delved back into the history of 1lissions and found that such an arrangement
had been proposed by leaders of the Church :Missionary Society more
timn sixty years before this time. Baptists and Presbyterians had also used
such a plan. Zwemer went forth to tell the churches:
"People can be interested in men easier than in machinery. By raising a
sp..:cial sum, in addition to their usual offerings, for their ~own missionary;
the contributors cannot help but feel that in a special \vay they have hearkened
to the command, 'Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospe!.' The
personal equation counts for much~ not only in the matter of finance but in
the stimulus it gives to prayer.•"..nd who can tell how much strength it gives
to a missionary to know that there is a company of believers whose thoughts
and efforts and prayers are focussed on his field of work? In addition there
comes to him the stimulus of the fact that those who deny themselves for his
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