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Sowing the World with Truth, November 6
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them
to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.
Matthew 28:19, 20
.
Christ’s last act before leaving the earth was to commission His am-
bassadors to go to the world with His truth. His last words were spoken to
impress the disciples with the thought that they held in trust the message
of heaven for the world....
If we but realized how earnestly Jesus worked to sow the world with
the gospel seed, we, living at the very close of probation, would labor
untiringly to give the bread of life to perishing souls....
God calls upon every church member to enter His service. Truth that
is not lived, that is not imparted to others, loses its life-giving power, its
healing virtue. Everyone must learn to work and to stand in his lot and
place as a burden bearer. Every addition to the church should be one more
agency for the carrying on of the great plan of redemption. The entire
church, acting as one, blending in perfect union, is to be a living, active,
missionary agency.
It is a law of heaven that as we receive we are to impart. The Christian
is to be a benefit to others; thus he himself is benefited. “He that watereth
shall be watered also himself” (
Proverbs 11:25
). This is not merely a
promise. It is a law of God’s divine administration, a law by which He
designs that the streams of beneficence shall be kept, like the waters of
the great deep, in constant circulation, perpetually flowing back to their
source. In the fulfilling of this law is the power of Christian missions....
We have only a little longer time in which to prepare for eternity....
The whole body of believers needs to be vitalized by the Holy Spirit
of God. We should study, plan, economize, and set in operation every
means possible whereby we may reach and bless suffering and ignorant
humanity. The light which God has given to us as a people is not given
that we may treasure it among ourselves. We are to act in harmony with
the great commission given to every disciple of Christ, to carry to all the
world the light of truth.
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