f 72 THE KING’S BUSINESS A Word for Missionary Volunteers By CHAS. E. HURLBURT [The following weighty words are extracts from a letter received recently by Hugh H. Wallace, Executive Secretary of the Africa Inland Mission Volunteer Band, from the General Director of the Mission.—Editors.] I EXPECT to start March 1st, (for Africa) to hold some meetings, by request, with the Egypt Gen ing—but 1 am warning. God wants and Africa needs men and women who not only volunteer but go.”
“Every called man and woman who really ‘sets his (or her) face like a flint’ to obey God will get there.” “He who waits for all difficulties to be removed—will not. At least I hope not—for it will prove that Satan who is very wise does not care about hindering him.” “The last days are on us—Satan is defeating most of the Saints, but will never overcome one who ‘sets his face’ to do God’s will trusting in God.” “It is true in ordinary life—23 out . of every 24 fail. The 24th succeeds and conquers the difficulties that con quered the other 23. It is not that he had less difficulties—but that he would not be conquered.” “So in the spiritual realm—the man who will not be defeated is the only one who wins, and the only one worth having out there where the battle is hottest.” “Do stir the candidates to see this. Nine out of ten of those who stay after an apparent call, do so—not because God does not want them, but because they have not enough backbone to go ahead and do the revealed will of God. God does not want men at the front who have to be forced to go, or who can be forced to stay, by friends or difficulties. They would retreat in the first battle, or surrender to the foe.” “Of all preparation this is the most important—that men learn not to re- (Concluded on page 209)
eral Missionaries in the Nile Delta, and reach the field about April 1st.” “I am exceedingly sorry I cannot get to California before I go—but this is one of the trials involved in the work.” “About the candidates—no one will get to the field now in God’s will with out setting his face like a flint and •riding over all sorts of difficulties, home, friends, money matters—every thing Satan can put in the way and chiefly the present worldly chufch.” “I t is hard to keep sweet when men of God are called-—hear—answer ‘send me’—and then stand back for all sorts of petty things. It is like a man who enlists for war and stops for his moth er’s tears, or to gather a crop, or to wait for some government officer to force him under heavy penalties to go on,—or who waits till the enemy has no ammunition left.” “If a man is worth sending out Sa tan will pile difficulties as high as mountains before him. If he has not force enough to go over or through them perhaps the field should be thankful, for there are at least as many and as great ones and he had better fail here than there, but I am sorry for the man who ‘looks back.’ He makes a very inferior kind of salt and the monotony of being a ‘pillar of salt’ on the desert plains must be and is a great sorrow.” “No!—(Wallace)—I am not scold
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