The spirit of these documents was once again affirmed in other sources. This time, Arthington was heard. In 1887, in response to his urging, a Missionary Intelligence and Registration Office was set up in London for the express purpose of keeping track of occupied mission fields in order to better ascertain where new efforts were needed. Royal Wilder encouraged his readers to pray that such an office would be set up in the United States, without tapping into current mission funds. Hope and Success Hope seemed to be an essential element of such a plan.
Men always work better when they are assured of the possibility and even certainty of success.
Listlessness and indifference are the offspring of despair. Certainty of success was another prominent feature of the discussions of the day. It is a work in which there is certainty of success. Others were not so hopeful about what might be accomplished. It is not utopian to believe that those sums now devoted to mission work are small compared with what will be devoted to this purpose next century.