A Spirit-Baptized Ministry
MISSIONARIES of the Basel Society in Kamerun, West Africa, write of urgent calls upon them for teachers. “I can hardly believe,” says one of the missionaries, “that this is truly the man-killing, blood-drinking, darkest Africa of other days.” The same thing is reported from the Kongo, from the outlying regions near Uganda, and from Portuguese East Africa. We have a profound realization of the fact that the first link in the golden chain of earth’s redemption is a Spirit-baptized ministry, with the inspiring promise of the Lord in their hearts: “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” Let us kneel about our altars and pray for forgiveness—none of us have done so well that we do not need it—until the heavens open, and Pentecost comes once more into our souls. Let us go forth, through the best sources of information within our reach, to keep step with the front line of the Lord’s advancing and conquering army. Let us register a holy vow that to the utmost of our ability, and to the last moment of our lives, we will be a God-anointed factor in the evangelization of the world in this generation.—W. W. Wadsworth, in Review of Missions.