Editor’s Table: Acts of Special Providence in Missionary Experience

ask that our young men will aid in making such a valuable collection, t ACTS OF SPECIAL PROVIDENCE IN MISSIONARY EXPERIENCE. We promised in our prospectus a collection of incidents wherein the special providence of God had been manifested in the experiences of our Elders engaged in the ministry. We desire to call the attention of our readers as well as the officers of the associations to the fact that we are dependent upon the Elders who have had experience in missionary labors for this collection. We therefore extend an invitation to all such Elders to write us one or more, or half a dozen for that matter, of such experiences; that is, incidents which have come within their own observation wherein the special providence of God has been manifested in their own preservation, or which contributed to the special success of their missions. We know that the experiences of our Elders are replete with circumstances of this character, and it will make the pages of the Era faith-promoting if such accounts are published. We desire that these experiences shall be those of recent years, in order that we may keep before the minds of our youth the fact that the power of God is as active today as in former years; and that now, as then, God confirms the authority and ministry of his servants by signs following them that believe. We trust our brethren will not fail to forward us their contributions for this collection of incidents. This kind of narrative is the simplest form of composition, and we hope that our Elders will very generally respond to the invitation to contribute their experiences to this series of articles. Especial pains should be taken to be explicit as to the time and place of the incident, and the names of other parties involved in the circumstance should be carefully given. Do not scrimp the story, tell it in full, but expect us to exercise the privilege of editing the matter freely,