W. C. White to D. A. Robinson, Sep. 10, 1895

FROM W. C. WHITE
Granville, H. S. W. September 10, ‘95.
Elder D. A. Robinson,
431 Halloway Rd., London N.
My dear Brother:-

Your kind and very welcome letter of July 30 came to hand Sept. 7, and I will improve this my first opportunity to reply. I was much surprised to read in the first paragraph of your letter that your last, which has not yet been answered, was dated May 18, 1895. I turn to my pile of unanswered letters and find that this statement is correct. I remember distinctly the satisfaction and pleasure with which I received and read that letter, and it seems but a few weeks since it came. But now that I think the matter over, I remember that I have carried it with me to New Zealand, Tasmania, and Victoria, always expecting that I would answer it “next week.”MMM 290.1

I think in all our planning that we much carefully discriminate between those persons who are kept our on the frontier, working alone, meeting discouragement, opposition and infidelity, and those who are working where they have many religious privileges, and opportunities for instruction week by week.MMM 290.2

Mother tells me that some of our people are making a mistake in planning institutes for the benefit of ministers and laborers, who have had abundant opportunity for instruction, and who do not carry in to their labors but a small part of that which they have been taught.MMM 290.3

She says that after the Minneapolis Conference there was much need of ministerial institutes, but now that the light has been presented and accepted, that it is the duty of these workers to gather about them younger laborers and lay helpers, and go into the mission fields working and teaching as they work. We are near the end; time is short, and every effort must now be made to carry the message in the shortest time to the largest number of people.MMM 290.4

You may have heard of the plans we have been working on here in Sydney and in Auckland. The minister who has the most experience and who have the chief burden of the work, holds a bible study at his home about three mornings in each week. [Selection ends here.]MMM 290.5