Lifelong Lessons

Abstract

In a description of the closing day of the Church Missionary Society exposition, the narrator of Edith Stanton’s Opportunity asks:

Where had they all come from, these Stewards who had willingly given their time and efforts to make the Exhibition so successful? Where would they disperse to? How many homes and influences other than the truest and best would in many instances help to brush off the influence of these weeks of happy fellowship and work together? How many would be obedient to the call of God which they had heard? How many would remember the vision they had seen of the Heathen and their need, in the lands so far away? (De Gruche 1909:156–57)

I have but two words—extensive and intensive. We want to keep our eye not only on Boston, but the world. We must throw our seeds wide. The conversion of the world is definitely before us. If the “World in Boston” is to be of any use to others it must have been a use to us.

—Bishop William Lawrence, 1911

No one word as to what remains to be done: [it] has been a soil and a climate in which individual and church trees have ripened into fruitage. Some of the fruit has been luscious. Is it to be left on the branches to wither and to dry, to fall on the ground, to decay? Or is it to be picked and carefully husbanded, to refresh and feed multitudes for seasons to come? General and denominational efforts will, we hope, be made to conserve all these fine results and still further to multiply them.

—Watchman, 1913