ARTHINGTON MISSION.
Extracts From Recent Correspondence.
We trust it will be of interest to the friends of African Missions to learn that Mr. Robert Arthington, of Leeds, England, has paid over the £3,000 pledged by him to this Association, for a new mission on the Upper Nile.
The following extracts from letters give a comprehensive view of the present attitude of affairs relating to the mission:
“Leeds, England, December 14, 1880.
“Dear Brethren in our Lord Jesus, our Saviour: For some time I have had it in my mind and heart to write to you and say I thought it time—I do trust the Lord’s time—we should begin the mission. If, therefore, your faith is fully with my faith, I propose to send you the £3,000 at once. How does it seem with you in the Lord’s sight? Without Him we can do nothing, and we must have Him with us from the beginning to the end of this enterprise.
“Let all the true people of God in the United States understand this, our view and feeling. We are all one family—they who are ‘the children of God scattered abroad.’ So I ask them all throughout the States, yea, and the world, to go with us heart and soul and prayer always in this undertaking. Surely in the mighty God of Jacob we shall overcome. We shall win many for Christ, and they shall stand amidst the multitude of the redeemed with palms in their hands, out of every kindred and nation and tongue and people.
“With my Christian sentiments to your committee, and asking the blessing of God on all their deliberations, yours and theirs, ever in Him, whom not having seen we love, in whom believing we have joy unspeakable and full of glory,
“Robert Arthington.”
“56 Reade Street, January 14, 1881.