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The Need of Living Missionaries

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 21, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 21.

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The Need of Living Missionaries

BECAUSE the Bible has been translated into so many different languages, some may think, “Why send missionaries? Why not let them read the Word of God for themselves?” But think! What was the eunuch of Ethiopia doing? Was he not faithfully reading the Scriptures in his own tongue, in the book of Isaiah? Yet he, when asked by Philip, “Understandest thou what thou readest?” replied, “How can I, except some one shall guide me?” The living messenger is needed, as well as the written Word. To his disciples Jesus said, “Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all nations.” While the Word was interpreted as the “seed” in one of the parables, in another, Jesus explained that “the good seed are the children of the kingdom.” It is by connecting the experience and teaching of the living disciple with the living Word, that the greatest fruitage is obtained.—Selected.