The Fields Are White by R. C. PORTER

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 4, 1915

The Fields Are White

By R. C. PORTER

R. C. PORTER

Many European business representatives in the Orient are now on two-thirds salary, and they have volunteered to reduce their salaries to half pay for the next year in order to place the other half at the disposal of their home governments for the prosecution of the European war. While men of the world are making such sacrifices in order to kill their enemies, should we not with a true spirit of sacrifice be doing more than they in order to save men?

More loyal people cannot be found today than those to whom God has intrusted the work of giving the third angel's message in this generation. It is for that purpose that means have been intrusted to them. The liberal manner in which they have contributed to the support of the work during the crisis caused by the European war has greatly encouraged the hearts of the missionaries dependent upon them, who from the very depths of their souls many times have thanked God for such loyal brethren and sisters, and have taken courage to plan in faith for a strong campaign for the finishing of the work. The devoted young people that have entered the field since the General Conference are the greatest possible contribution to the advancement of the work. Could those who have sacrificed to send them have heard the prayers for this greatly needed help, and witnessed the tears of joy that mingled with thanksgiving on the arrival of the new recruits, they would have felt repaid for their sacrifice in contributing toward supplying this greatest of all needs in mission fields.

But the needs are not all supplied. New fields are most piteously calling for the message. One whole tribe of four thousand is calling for teachers. Four hundred of them have forsaken their idols and are favorably inclined toward the truth.

In Pastor Hsi's territory hundreds are seeking for more light, in view of the signs which indicate the rapidly approaching end of all things. The great Mongolian field, with the Celebes Islands and many other unentered fields in Malaysia, the Philippines, Korea, Japan, and China, is still waiting.

These calls burn like fire in our hearts, and we can do no less than to pass the needs of these fields on to you, and ask if you have not more consecrated young people who desire to volunteer to meet these calls and join us in extending the message into these unenlightened fields, that the work may be speedily finished, and we all stand with that triumphant company who sing the song of final deliverance from a world of strife, injustice, and war, and as victors sit down in the kingdom of God with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the faithful who have sacrificed for the finishing of God's work in a world of sin.

Shanghai, China.