Remember the Missionary Acre Fund
By P. T. Magan
SINCE the Missionary Acre Sabbath last spring little has been published relative to the Missionary Acre Fund. We know that many faithful souls have planted an offering unto the Lord. These are all recorded in the blessed books of our Father above. How good God is! He puts it into the human heart to make an offering to him. The very thought, the inspiration, the desire to sow, to plant, or to give the fruit of our labor to the cause of God, is in itself a gift from heaven. The physical strength which we employ to do the work is also loaned of God, for in him we live and move and have our being. And when in response to our labors and to the action of sun and soil the earth gives forth her fulness, and we return to God his own in the form of a free-will offering, he blesses us for the gift as if it had been all ours, and fills our hearts with the sweet satisfaction and joy which come from doing right. Have you ever felt worn and weary while working that you might have something to give to the Missionary Acre Fund? Human weariness is like a wave-born in our frail frames, its motion never ceases until it has touched and moved the great heart of God above. Do you ever complain that the calls for help are too many and come too fast? Your Saviour never complains that your calls for help to him come too fast or too often. But we say these calls for financial help from our different institutions need never have been if wrong moves and mistakes had not been made. Very true, and our calls to our Saviour for help need never have been had we never made any wrong moves or mistakes. The cause is God's, and it is ours; and as long as God has courage to go on with us, let us have courage to go on with him. We are praying to God that everywhere the Missionary Acre Fund may be remembered, and that those who have planted for God may be faithful to their vow when the crop is reaped, and the returns of their labor are in their hands; even as we also pray that God will be faithful to his promise to us in the great harvest day of all the earth.