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of God’s redeeming love in Christ for them! Finally, in the will and mercy of God, three of His witnesses had come, three whose hearts God had burdened for the Cuitlateco people. They had come—but too late! “They have eyes to see, and see not; . . . ears to hear, and hear not” ; such were the words spoken of old concerning Israel, but, in a different sense, equally applicable to the fifteen remaining Cuitlatecos, the last remnants of a dying race. Yes, they had eyes, but they read not, for they were old, dim with years, unlearned in the art of reading. Yes, they had ears, but they heard not, for through disuse much of their Cuitlateco vocabulary was forgotten and Spanish was by no means com* pletely understood. Yes, they had hearts, but dull, hardened hearts. Dur ing all the years of their existence no one had ever come with the Word of God, the message of life and hope and love, written in the blood of the Son of God who died and rose again for them, the Cuitlateco people. Yet Not Too Late Too late? Yes, too late for the thousands upon thousands of Cuitla tecos for whom Christ died, but who never once heard! Too late? No, not too late for the fifteen who remained! Our God is the God of the impossible and His Word is “ quick, •and power ful, and sharper than any twoedged
“We long for the Desire of every nation.
"Give us,” they cry, ” your cup of consolation.
“And oh— we die so fast!”
“ Ne’er to our outstretched hands *tis passed.
— Author unknown.
go now, for the harvest of today will be gone tomorrow1 To tardy, visionless disciples of old qame the heart-searching rebuke of God’s Son Himself: “Say not ye, There are yet four irionths, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.” Satan, keeping many occupied with this present world, would seek to persuade us that it is still “four months” until the harvest: then we shall give and then we shall go. For unnumbered millions that will be— too late! Christ said that the fields "are white already to harvest.” "Now is the day of salvation.” God’s message is for today. God’s messenger must go now.
tribes of earth who still have not the Word of God in their own language! Many of these, as the Cuitlatecos, are, fast passing off the scene. Too late? No, not yet too late if \Ve go to them now! Christ is still, as of old, saying to you who are His disciples; “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers Into his harvest.” Pray forth translator-missionaries for the three to four hundred tribes In the great Amazon Valley of South America. Pray forth workers for the millions of people and the many language groups of Siberia. Pray forth laborers to go to the unknown num ber of tribes in the great “heartland” of interior Asia. Pray that they may
sword.” It is “ like a hammer- that breaketh the rock in pieces.” To every known living Cuitlateco, a Gospel of John in Spanish was given. Several, whose hearts God had prepared, received it joyfully, as it was in very truth, the Word of God. Several were dealt with personally concerning their need and God’s provision of salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ. “Faith cometh by hear ing, and hearing by the word of God.” Pray with us that these fifteen may find someone to read the Word to them that they may hear, though in a strange and foreign tongue, the message of God’s love for them, and hearing it, believe it unto salvation in Christ. Too late? No, not yet too late, not yet too late to reach the one thousand
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