A Touching, Convincing Appeal by Arthur Grosvenor Daniells

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 14, 1915

A Touching, Convincing Appeal

By Arthur Grosvenor Daniells

THIS number of the REVIEW presents to our people an appeal from our missionaries in China and the surrounding countries. It is the first united appeal ever prepared by our fellow workers in foreign lands and addressed to our people in the homeland. It will surely touch the hearts of all who read it.

These dear, devoted fellow believers in China, Japan, Korea, Manchuria, the Philippines, Malaysia, and the East Indies are not asking for anything for themselves personally. This is not an appeal for larger remuneration, better homes, and more comforts. No matter how much they may need some of these things, they are willing to go on toiling without them.

They appeal to us in behalf of the millions of poor lost souls around them who are going down to Christless graves without hope. They are with these people, and realize that they were all purchased by the death of God’s dear Son. They know, too, that these lost souls have tender hearts that respond to the love of God when it is revealed to them. Already they have won thousands to Christ and to the third angel’s message. They are witnesses of the joy that comes to the hearts of these poor heathen when the light of the glorious gospel penetrates to those dark recesses. They see the devotion, loyalty, and earnest zeal of these people in the cause of God.

And seeing all this, they appeal to our people in the homeland, who have been so greatly blessed all their lives, to take the present situation to heart, and do more for the salvation of the millions who are still unsaved. They feel that this is the hour of great opportunity to work in these heathen lands, and they are deeply convinced that the time has fully come to enter upon a far greater and larger effort in those lands. Let all read this stirring, convincing appeal.

A. G. DANIELLS.