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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
example is to be such that it will have a telling influence for good
on those around them. They are to count all things but loss for the
excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord.
Intense earnestness should now take possession of us. Our slum-
bering energies should be aroused to untiring effort. Consecrated
workers should go forth into the field clearing the King’s highway,
and gaining victories in new places. My brother, my sister, is it
nothing to you to know that every day souls are going down into the
grave unwarned and unsaved, ignorant of their need of eternal life
and of the atonement made for them by the Saviour? Is it nothing
to you that soon the world is to meet Jehovah over His broken law?
Heavenly angels marvel that those who for so many years have had
the light, have not carried the torch of truth into the dark places of
the earth.
The infinite value of the sacrifice required for our redemption
reveals the fact that sin is a tremendous evil. God might have wiped
out this foul blot upon creation by sweeping the sinner from the face
of the earth. But He “so loved the world, that He gave His only-
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16
. Then why are we not more
in earnest? Why are so large a number idle? Why are not all who
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profess to love God, seeking to enlighten their neighbors and their
associates, that they may no longer neglect so great salvation?
A Lack of Sympathy
Among professing Christians of today there is a fearful lack of
the sympathy that should be felt for souls unsaved. Unless our hearts
beat in unison with the heart of Christ, how can we understand the
sacredness and importance of the work to which we are called by
the words: “Watch for ... souls, as they that must give account”? We
talk of Christian missions. The sound of our voices is heard, but do
we feel Christ’s tender heart-longing for souls?
The Saviour was an untiring worker. He did not measure His
work by hours. His time, His heart, His strength, were given to labor
for the benefit of humanity. Entire days were devoted to labor, and
entire nights were spent in prayer, that He might be braced to meet