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Christian Service
often fail of securing that which is attainable as a right, from the
powers that be. God will work for us, when we are ready to do what
we can and should do on our part.—
The Southern Watchman, March
15, 1904
.
Home Missions vs. Foreign Missions
The home missionary work will be farther advanced in every way
when a more liberal, self-denying, self-sacrificing spirit is manifested
for the prosperity of foreign missions; for the prosperity of the home
work depends largely, under God, upon the reflex influence of the
evangelical work done in countries afar off. It is in working actively
to supply the necessities of the cause of God that we bring our souls in
touch with the Source of all power.—
Testimonies for the Church 6:27
An American business man, who was an earnest Christian, in
conversation 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 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
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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.”—
Testimonies
for the Church 6:29, 30
.