NEGLECTING THE HOME FRONT?
Not a bit of it. It could be so if we did not read the last paragraph. But we are nowhere near the point where the rush of applicants for work overseas constitutes a brain-drain on the homelands. Quite the contrary: for as we have said, those who go to work in such places generally come back after a. few years. And when they do come back it is not to retire: it is to put matured powers to use in their own lands. There is certainly a net gain, even if we think only of brethren already "talented" who go abroad for a spell. But it is a bigger gain than that. Some of those who have gone and worked abroad (we have said this too) have surprised their friends with their maturity when they have returned; they went out with no sort of indication that they would ever be more than ordinary brethren of the ranks, faithfully filling a seat and doing the duties assigned to them: and they came back with the potential for service far greater than they ever seemed likely to give before they went. The early campaigns did something the same on the home front, but to nothing like the extent that faithful and conscientious missionary service has done.

There are not too many examples to go on at the time when these words are written, but the examples are full of promise as to what would happen if we did this kind of thing systematically.