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means whereby high and low, rich and poor, may hear the message
of truth. Not all are called to personal labor in foreign fields, but all
can do something by their prayers and their gifts to aid the missionary
work.
An American businessman who was an earnest Christian, in con-
versation with a fellow worker remarked that he himself worked for
Christ twenty-four hours of the day. “In all my business relations,” he
said, “I try to represent my Master. As I have opportunity, I try to win
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others to Him. All day I am working for Christ. And at night, while I
sleep, I have a man working for Him in China.”
In explanation he added: “In my youth I determined to go as a
missionary to the heathen. But on the death of my father I had to
take up his business in order to provide for the family. Now, instead
of going myself, I support a missionary. In such a town of such a
province of China, my worker is stationed. And so, even while I sleep,
I am, through my representative, still working for Christ.”
Are there not Seventh-day Adventists who will do likewise? In-
stead of keeping the ministers at work for the churches that already
know the truth, let the members of the churches say to these laborers:
“Go work for souls that are perishing in darkness. We ourselves will
carry forward the services of the church. We will keep up the meetings,
and, by abiding in Christ, will maintain spiritual life. We will work
for souls that are about us, and we will send our prayers and our gifts
to sustain the laborers in more needy and destitute fields.”
Why should not the members of a church or of several small
churches unite to sustain a missionary in foreign fields? If they will
deny themselves of selfish indulgences, dispense with needless and
hurtful things, they can do this. Brethren and sisters, will you not help
in this work? I beseech you to do something for Christ, and to do
it now. Through the teacher whom your money shall sustain in the
field, souls may be saved from ruin to shine as stars in the Redeemer’s
crown.
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