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the tremendous needs of persons in developing countries, you will
become less self-centered and more sympathetic to the desperate
plight of millions. Find out all you can about persons such as the
apostle Paul, Martin Luther, Moffat, Livingston, and Carey, as well
as today’s frontier missionaries.
God alone knows the depths of the world’s misery and despair,
and He knows how to bring relief. Everywhere He sees hurting
persons, crushed with sin and sorrow and pain. But He also sees
their potential; He sees the height that they could reach. Although
human beings have abused their opportunities, wasted their talents,
and lost their Godlike dignity, the Creator will be honored in their
rescue
Thousands of young persons will be called to this rescue ministry.
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The whole world is opening to the gospel. From every direction
sin-stricken hearts cry for a knowledge of the God of love. Millions
have never heard of God or of His love. It is their right to receive this
knowledge. They have equal rights to the Savior’s mercy. We must
answer their cry. At this crisis, the question asked of Queen Esther
comes to every home, every school, every student who has enjoyed
the light of the gospel: “Who knows whether you have come to the
kingdom for such a time as this?”
Esther 4:14
, NKJV.
There is no line of work that could benefit you more than helping
the underprivileged. In this ministry, you are God’s helping hand.
Through you, angels can carry out their mission. Angels can speak
through your voice and work through your hands. As you cooperate
with these heavenly beings you receive the benefit of their education
and experience.
What university course could equal this? With such an army
of workers as our youth, rightly trained, might furnish, how soon
the message of a crucified, risen and soon-coming Savior might be
carried to the whole world! How soon might the end come—the end
of suffering and sorrow and sin! How soon, in place of our lives
here, marred by sin and pain, we could inherit heaven, where the
voice of weeping will never again be heard
All the perplexities of our life’s experience we will then under-
stand. What appeared to be only confusion, disappointment, and
frustration will be seen as God’s beautiful plan to give us victory at
last. There we will again meet our friends. The love and caring that
