Lord’s Work to Be Maintained
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Support Foreign Missions
The sympathies of God’s people should be aroused in every church
throughout our land, and there should be unselfish action to meet the
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necessities of different mission fields. Men should testify to their
interest in the cause of God by giving of their substance. If such an
interest were manifested, the bond of Christian brotherhood would
exist and increase in strength between all the members of Christ’s
family.
This work of faithfully bringing in all the tithes, that there may
be meat in the house of God, would supply laborers for both home
and foreign fields. Although books and publications upon present
truth are pouring out their treasures of knowledge to all parts of the
world, yet missionary posts must be established at different points.
The living preacher must proclaim the words of life and salvation.
There are open fields inviting workers to enter. The harvest is ripe,
and the earnest Macedonian cry for laborers is heard from every part
of the world.—
The Review and Herald, February 19, 1889
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The Work Must Not Stop
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An appeal made by Mrs. White in 1886. Written from Europe.
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If we indeed have the truth for these last days, it must be carried to
every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. Erelong the living and the
dead are to be judged according to the deeds done in the body, and the
law of God is the standard by which they are to be tested. Then they
must now be warned; God’s holy law must be vindicated, and held up
before them as a mirror. To accomplish this work, means is needed. I
know that times are hard, money is not plenty; but the truth must be
spread, and money to spread it must be placed in the treasury....
Shall We Abandon the Work?
Our message is world wide; yet many are doing literally nothing,
many more so very little, with so great a want of faith, that it is next to
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nothing. Shall we abandon the fields we have already opened in foreign
countries? Shall we drop part of the work in our home missions? Shall
we grow pale at a debt of a few thousand dollars? Shall we falter and
become laggards now, in the very last scenes of this earth’s history?