The Bronco, Yearbook of Simmons College, 1910 Page: 60
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The Mission Band is at present composed
of near one hundred young men and young
women who have avowedly "presented their
bodies a living sacrifice" to )e offered up
wherever the place of service shall be pointed
out to them. The title of the organization
is sometimes misleading as some understand
that it is composed of those only who are
preparing especially for Foreign Mission
work.
Some years ago, when the student body of
the college became sufficiently large to demand
the grouping of special units for special
effort, it was found that the organization
of those who were specializing in Foreign
Mission would contain too few to cover the
needed efforts, and hence a general workers
band was formed which was to have as its
purpose the fostering of the mission spirit
in both local and foreign missions. The present
Mission Band is the product and outgrowth
of that movement. Its inner work
is the study of missions in their details, covering
an extensive and an intensive examination
of the various fields and workers of the
world, the history of missions and the outlook
and demands of the present; besides
this inner work, the Band. throllgh various
committees, does actual mission work in the
City of Abilene and surrounding coinmmunities
and towns, looks into the needs of destitute
fields adjacent to the College and aids
in supplying workers.
One of the most important features of the
Mission Band's work is to care for the spiritual
life of the students in college, to meet
together in spiritual service, talk over the
difficulties of student life, to pray with one
another over individual burdens, work unitedly
for the salvation of the unsaved students
and the uplifting of the spiritual life of
the College.
The Band does no specific work during vacation
as an organization, but each member
of the group takes upon himself or herself
the spiritual task and obligation to remember
daily the other members of the Bandwhen prayer is made, and the benedictions
of the od( of the harvest are invoked upon
each harvester and gleaner wheresoever that
one may be laboring. At the end of vacation,
when the harvesters come in, a glad
season is had of rejoicing over the labors
accomplished. Reports are made by each
member of the souls won and the positive
good that has been seen to be done during
the period of absence from one another.
The report in September last year showed
near two thousand professions of faith and
a number approximating that united to the
various churches of the wide field covered
by the workers. Besides this, thousands of
dollars were raised and expended in the
kingdom enterprizes. There is, perhaps, no
other one unit in the South comparing in
character to the Mission Band that does a
wider work for God and righteousness.W. C. REEVES
PASTOR OAK STREET BAPTIST CHURCH
Abilene, Texas-60
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Simmons College (Abilene, Tex.). The Bronco, Yearbook of Simmons College, 1910, yearbook, 1910; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38655/m1/61/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library.