The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1916-01-21

terial relief, and $4,000 was received.
Our work for the year is planned as
follows: First Monday in the month,
business meeting; second Monday, de-
votional and Bible study; third Mon
day, home missions; fourth Monday,
foreign missions.
We are glad to welcome in our
midst Rev. T. A. Amber and wife, of
Storm Lake, Iowa. Our friends will
find them located at 120 Center street.
The Woman's Missionary Society of
the NJ. E. church, met on last Mon
day afternoon. After a very impress
sive devotional service, led by Mrs.
B. T. Deal, an interesting and in
structive literary program was given.
Leaflets were read by Mrs. James A.
Anderson and Mrs. Ross Piercey
stewardship, in which she urged each
member of the society to resolve for
this year, to pay dues and pledge by
the end of each quarter. Mrs. Ray
burn Peay supplemented the talk by
urging each one to have a real self
sacrificing spirit, and gave very
touching incidence of a poor widow
who gave her only son to go as a
missionary to the foreign field and
after he had been gone for seven
years, was expected back on furlough.
The little widow said that she had
been praying for those seven years,
that she might be able to say to him
again, ito GO Mrs. Guy A. Sim
mons gave an interesting talk on the
work of the mission study class. 1t
has been decided that for this year,
the class will hold it's meetings imme-
diately after the regular literary
program of the missionary society,
which is held on the third Mondays
of each month. Our next meeting
will be the regular business meeting,
on the first monday in February.
Monday afternoon the mission
study class for the ladies of the Meth
odist church was reorganized with
Mrs. Guy A. Simmons as leader and
Mrs. w. B. Hubbell as assistant 1t
is very much hoped that many more
of the ladies will join the already
large class and take advantage of
this opportunity to bring themselves
into intelligent and sympathetic re-
lationship with the church's greatest
work.
Missions are the primary work of
the church, the work for which the
church was commissioned by our Lord
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for the church to carry forward but
are her most important undertaking
and should be controlling purpose
in life of each of it's members. And
every Christian should be made intel
ligent concerning this work.
The study of missions is valuable
also from a purely cultural stand
point. 1t is the most broadening
most elevating and most inspiring of
all themes. Missions are at the bot
tom of all world movements. Ex-
President Taft says they ARE the
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history of every country we find
closely associated missionary. Ger
many had Luther; France, Calvin
England, Knox, Wesley, w. S. Eliot
and Edwards, and it is almost impos-
sible to even think of Africa without
Livingston.
The third reason for the study of
missions is that nothing will keep up
our enthusiasm and quicken our ac-
tivity in the Christian life like the
mighty works of God in the now
Christian world.
Fourth.-The study of missions will
broaden our sympathies and keep us
from selfshness and narrowness. A
mans Christian life is not what il
should be until his sympathies like
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