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missionaries who have some startling spectacular experience. The reverse is true. God has commanded every Chris tian to go; His command is sufficient call. God expects all Christians to go unless He supernaturally interferes. Uncle Sam expects every young man between 21 and 30 in the service of his country. No one dare remain home unless he has exemption papers. Girls your command is not from any human president, but from the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. You go not alone for a just cause and to save physical life. You go with the glad news of God’s love and salvation to sin sick souls. You save not merely bodies for time, but bodies and souls for eternity. You would count it a privilege not a duty to warn people of the washout. When we see life as God sees it we will realize that “Go ye” is not a duty, but the greatest of all privileges. Have you exemption papers? If not, God is counting on you. As God uses salt to arrest decay, so God would use Christians to arrest the decay through sin, and rot Of selfish ness and pride. God uses light to dis pell darkness and disease germs, and also to warm, cheer and transform. He also wants us to carry the light Christ Jesus wherever there is darkness, ignorance and sin. If you do not go there are thousands who will never hear. What answer will you give God when you stand before Him? Some may think missionaries have been going for many years, haven’t the majority of people heard of Jesus? In China alone one-half million have heard, while four hundred million have not. If this number were to pass before you night and day and each year one were to say “Tell me of the true God” it would take seven and a half years. Our hearts respond with love, sym pathy and money to the needy war vic tims, and rightly they should. Yet mis sionaries say that equally distressing
conditions exist in all of these coun tries where people are .yet without Christ. People torture and mutilate their own bodies and their children in compliance with witch doctors and heathen superstitions to ward off and to heal disease. Would you want to live in a city of 40,000 population with no hospital, no doctor, no dentist, no nurse, no press, no telephone, no sani tation, no water system, no library, no transportation, no. public school, and no church except there be a Mission church? Yet this is the average con dition to say nothing of centuries of superstition and heathenish customs imbedded in the life of the people. Comforts, conveniences and privileges always follow Christ. Supposing you lived in the heart of Africa would you want some one to come tell you of Jesus? What can you girls do? Begin to pray and to plan to go. Constantly get missionary information and pass it on to others. (Pastor and teacher will help you.) Save and earn money toward educating a native girl. Let your class have ,its missionary substitutes. While you are working abroad you will also find work to do at home. For half the youth of the United States under twenty (twenty millions) are not in Sunday School, Protestant, Catholic or Jewish. God is still calling. “Who will go for us?” Will you say as did Isaiah, “Here am I, send me.” (Isa. 6:8; Dan. 12:3; Jas. 5:19-20). Helping Others to Know Jesus. John 4 : 4- 15, 25-42 Memory Verse.— “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.” Mark 16:15. Approach.#*-(Candles make a splen did approach to this lesson, using col ored ones to represent different peoples, as you make the missionary applica-
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