STRANGERS AND SOJOURNERS

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 372, 18 June 1926, Page 10

STRANGERS AND SOJOURNERS

During part of election year, I away from inv home town, in a considerably larger place, when* the coming and going of a stranger is an unnoticeably small matter. Promptly, on my first visit at church, I was made welcome by several members of the Union, invited to their homes, urged to attend the meetings, and to take part in an enterprise they keep going regularly. Several other members who noticed my badge as we passed in the street spoke to me on its introduction. The President came to see me in the rooms another member had helped me to find. It hardly sounds like a stranger and sojourner, does it? All the same, I was a stranger, and there only a short time, and perhaps remember more of their welcome because of other sojourners in places where tilings did not happen so. Are there any chance strangers in your neighbourhood just now? If there are, have any of you, not necessarily as a body, but just as individual members, the chance to make them welcome? If so, make a grab at your good luck. It may mean a new member, one very glad to have been helped over that ‘lsraelitish in Egypt’ feeling of loneliness. Or it may mean a passer-by taking things away with her, sure to be repaid some day. a grateful memory, a pleasant association with our badge If the stranger Is mere man. he has, or some day will have, a vote. Even if he should miss that, the practice of welcome, that we may give him, is safe to enrich us, both individually and as a Union. So, is there any stranger passing by? Don’t let her go as a stranger. We can’t afford it. She may be just the one who needs your touch of influence to transform her into a missionary. Or she may ne**d just your welcome to encourage her over a steep bit of the way. Or she may be just one of the everyday sort, like ourselves, just the one your Union so needs. Don’t let her pass, still a stranger. KATHERINE MERCER.