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no more, and am obliged to lie down; and then I am ready 
to weep over these poor perishing Fijians, and over the lit- 
tle concern manifested by the churches for their salvation. 
I often feel unmanned, a want of courage, and other feelings 
that were strange to me.” 
Perhaps this brief sketch of missionary need is but repre- 
sentative of many foreign mission situations today. It has 
always been so that the men and women on the frontiers of 
missionary endeavor have been faced by a task vaster and 
more perilous than the home church has understood, or even 
imagined. The appeal of this chapter came from the hearts 
of men and women who lived and labored almost a hundred 
years ago, but the situation of need is today almost identical 
with that of a century ago. Heroic men and women still are 
overtaxing their physical powers in their efforts to meet sit- 
uations of great need where the harvest truly is plenteous, 
but the laborers pitifully few. It still is true that the church 
needs a great awakening in face of its unfinished task—the 
evangelization of the heathen peoples of the world. Now, as 
never before, the Christian church should pray the Lord of 
the harvest that He may send forth laborers into the harvest. 
