Help for Mission Fields
There is a burden upon my soul in regard to the destitute mission
fields. There is aggressive work to be done in the missions near us;
and there is great need of funds for advancing the work in foreign
fields. Our foreign missions are languishing. The missionaries are not
sustained as God requires. For want of funds, workers are not able to
enter new fields.
All around us are souls perishing in their sins. Every year thousands
upon thousands are dying without God and without hope of everlasting
life. The plagues and judgments of God are doing their work, and
souls are going to ruin because the light of truth has not been flashed
upon their pathway. But how few are burdened over the condition
of their fellow men. The world is perishing in its misery; but this
hardly moves even those who claim to believe the highest and most
far-reaching truth ever given to mortals. God requires His people to
be His helping hand to reach the perishing, but how many are content
to do nothing. There is a lack of that love which led Christ to leave
His heavenly home and take man’s nature, that humanity might touch
humanity and draw humanity to divinity. There is a stupor, a paralysis,
upon the people of God which prevents them from understanding what
is needed for this time.
God’s people are on trial before the heavenly universe; but the
scantiness of their gifts and offerings, and the feebleness of their
efforts in God’s service, mark them as unfaithful. If the little that is
now accomplished were the best they could do, they would not be
under condemnation; but with their resources they could do much
more. They know, and the world knows, that they have to a great
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degree lost the spirit of self-denial and cross bearing.
God calls for men to give the warning to the world that is asleep,
dead in trespasses and sins. He calls for freewill offerings from those
whose hearts are in the work, who have a burden for souls, that they
shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Satan is playing the game
of life for the souls of men. He is seeking to secure means, that he
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