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The Publishing Work at College View
Loma Linda, California,
August 24, 1905
I approve of the efforts that have been made to establish our
German and Scandinavian publishing work at College View. I hope
that plans will be devised for the encouragement and strengthening
of this work.
The whole burden of the work must not be left with our foreign
brethren. Nor should our brethren throughout the field leave too
heavy a load on the conferences near College View. The members of
these conferences should lead out and do their best, and all should
come to their assistance. The truth is to be proclaimed to all nations
and kindreds and tongues and peoples.
Our German and Danish and Swedish brethren have no good
reason for not being able to act in harmony in the publishing work.
Those who believe the truth should remember that they are God’s
little children, that they are under His training. Let them be thankful
to God for His manifold mercies and be kind to one another. They
have one God and one Saviour; and one Spirit—the Spirit of Christ—
is to bring unity into their ranks.
After His resurrection, Christ ascended to heaven, and He is
today presenting our needs to the Father. “I have graven thee upon
the palms of My hands,” He says.
Isaiah 49:16
. It cost something
to engrave them there. It cost untold agony. If we would humble
ourselves before God, and be kind and courteous and tenderhearted
and pitiful, there would be one hundred conversions to the truth
where now there is only one. But, though professing to be converted,
we carry around with us a bundle of self that we regard as altogether
too precious to be given up. It is our privilege to lay this burden at
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the feet of Christ and in its place take the character and similitude of
Christ. The Saviour is waiting for us to do this.
Christ laid aside His royal robe, His kingly crown, and His high
command, and stepped down, down, down, to the lowest depths of
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