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tions.” “It is written . . . that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations.” “The mystery . . . now is . . . accord ing to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.” This reference to the “commandment of the everlast ing God,” though found in Ro mans 16:26, must point back to the giving of the Great Com mission by Christ Himself. There was to be no break in the plan of strategy outlined by
and surely He will not linger longer after we have advanced with the standard of salvation into the last recesses of the ut termost part. R epudiating the O bliga tion to C hrist Awake, O church of God! “How long are ye slack to go to possess the land?” Will ye be ashamed at His coming? How can you spend that which God has intrusted to your stew ardship, on beautiful homes, fine food, lovely clothes, and fancy cars, when multitudes
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our Commanding Officer in His prophetic statements. The very same campaign which began in Jerusalem was to em brace Judea, afterwards Samaria, and then the uttermost
without having had a single chance to be saved? You feed your own souls but forget the “other sheep” which must be
part of the earth. There were to be the same message, the same messengers, or their suc cessors, the same methods, and the same objec tive at the culmination as at the beginning. The prophecies quoted above outline a pro gram for us. Have you noticed how the time clock of our Saviour’s life was set by prophecy? “Mine hour is not yet come.” “When the time was come . . . he steadfastly set his face.” “All this was done, that the Scriptures of the proph ets might be fulfilled.” Are you living accord ing to prophecy? You are, if your interests are found all along the line of battle from Jerusa lem to the uttermost part of the earth. Dare not to substitute your plan for the Scriptural plan. If you do, you will miss a great blessing. What percentage of your prayers, your labors, your gifts are to make Christ known to the uttermost part of the earth? If the portion is insignificant —if your prayers, your efforts, your gifts are almost all for the homeland—you are trying to defeat prophecy, and you had better not talk very loudly about your belief in the inerrancy of Holy Writ.
brought in. You tear down your houses of worship to build them up again on a grander scale and forget that the foundation has not yet been laid in yonder jungles of Amazonia, where naked savages never dream that God loves them and would build them as lively stones into the temple for His dwelling. You multiply oppor tunities for your own kith and kin with many preachers in every city, with radio programs, schools, magazines, tracts, and Bibles in lavish abundance. These things you have done but have left the other undone. Is it nothing to you that the Bible has not even been translated into the languages of a thousand different tribes, that they have no preachers, no Bible schools, no Christian literature? In a similar situation, your Master -said: “Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.” Awake, ye preachers! “Like people, like priest.” Are you really burdened over the un finished task of the church ? How much do you know about the unreached multitudes in for eign lands ? Many of you demand salaries which would, support several missionaries. Is your
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A call was recently sent out by a world-wide organiza tion of fundamentalists. It was a plea to “hold fast that which thou hast” (R.V.) and of course was timely—but, oh, how shortsighted ! It sounded no martial call for a new advance into the regions beyond, where the gospel has never been preached. No concern is expressed nor sorrow shown
map of the world limited by the frontiers of the U.S.A. ? It often seems so. Ye Christian editors, awake! How little space is given in your magazines to aggressive missionary articles! Directors of Bible conferences, how many of you plan conventions with no time or little given to the subject of foreign missions? Ye Christian educators, are you, by your constant pleading for your own institutions, so ex hausting the funds of Christian donors that when the grad uates of your schools volun
over the fact that we have not yet taken the good news to over three hundred tribes in Africa, nor to the many tribes of dialect-speaking Indians in Latin America, nor to mil lions of souls in Mongolia, Chinese Turkestan, Baluchis tan, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Tibet. Of course we should lament the inroads of modern ism and the ravages of sin, but why should we not grieve over this great shortcoming of our own and set about to rectify it? We can evangelize the world ; we can complete the task which He has given us to do. We cannot blot out modernism; we cannot stem the tide of iniquity. Christ will do this when He returns,
teer for service in unevangel- Mawm. ized lands, there is no money Rjj with which to send them out ? ¡pf* Ye missionaries, awake !
How many of you settle down in fields where the gospel has been preached for years, and continue to pour the offerings of homeland churches into w o r k which the national churches themselves should be supporting,while pioneer fields remain untouched? Is it pos sible that one-sixth of all the missionaries in China are lo cated in Shanghai, while in land cities have no witness! Awake, awake, ye funda- [Continued Oft page 346]
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