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196 Our Views of Mission Work.you, we love you. Any self-denying effort on work, who reads His word or studies His providthepart of others, wins our approval and he who ences in opening up the way and giving successmakes the sacrifice wins our love. No work, it to the heralds of the cross who go into the reseemsto ns, appeals so Httle to selfishness as the gions beyond. The great fact that wUl centralworkof foreign missions, and the missionary ize and hold our interest in our missions is the factseems to rise into that sublime height of self-ob- that it is God's wiU that the work shall be done.livion which was peculiariy the spirit of Christ. When all other motives faU this wUl remain—Our deep interest in our missionaries and their the Master calls us to the work. Love for Christwork is fostered, secondly, by the nature of their is the constraining motive in all mission effort;work. We reaUze the fact that many millions of that is the secret of all missionary enterprise. Itour fellow-men are without God and without was this which induced Henry Martyn to foregohope iu the world. Our missionary aidor has his briUiant prospects at home in order to preachnot been weakened by the deadly influence of and suffer among the heathen and to die a fewthat theory which holds that these miUions need years afterwards in lonely anguish, vainly tryingnot the gospel that they may be brought to to cool bis fevered brow by thrusting it amid theChrist, or yet that more deadly theory that there damp boxes of his baggage. It was love foris for them hope beyond the grave. We know not Christ that led Alexander Duff to go back tohow God's Spirit may work unseen and we limit Calcutta to continue his work for India, thoughHim not by our fraility and inefficiency, but we his physicians told him it would be his death.do know that as far as we are concerned, if the Onr own beloved Mrs. Metheny visited tbe citypresent generation of heathendom is to be saved, of her birth, but she could not remain there.it mustbe saved by a present church. Andas The scenes of her childhood days had lost their atbelieverswe cannot but be interested in you and traction for her, when love for Christ was theyour co-laborers who are endeavoring to bring supreme motive in her heart and life. She mustthese millions to the kuowledge of God and to a go back to Syria to die. Dr. Beattie, though behigher life in Christ.had every strong attachment, did not feel at lib-Deep as our interest is in this work, it should erty to remain in his native land. He must go backbe deepened. We should strive to know more to Syria. To work ? So he and the Churchabout the work that our own missionaries are do- thought, but God said to die, and in his death toing. That splendid missionary monthly. The testify for Christ and by bis death to endear thatHebald of Mission News, should be read in mission to our hearts as nothing else could co.every Covenanter home. A missionary maga- 0 ! that we might speak of all the tender tieszine is essential in order to make us as iamiliar that bind us tothe mission, but time forbids. Thiswith our work as we should be. We hail the is enough to awaken and deepen interest in everypublication of that magazine as a very crisis in heart—love for Christ and, the second highestour mission work, a crisis that wiU lead to grand motive of all hnman endeavor, love for our fellowresults. Familiarize ourselves with the work and men. It is these two, tbat led us to give, andwe wUl pray more earnestly and more intelligently you, dear friends, to go and work in that distantior the success of the work; and, if we pray, we land. Go, aad as you go, remember, that thewill contribute more largely and more systema- hearts of the church go with you. As you crosstically. Another reason why we are so deeply the great deep, our prayers will ascend in ferinterestedin your work is because the Master is veucy and earnestness that G od may give you aso deeply interested in it. No one can doubt the safe journey. And when you join the forceMaster's will concerning, or His interest in this already there, we will give and we will pray, let