The Missionary Duty of Every Christian
ALTHOUGH the command, “Go ye into all the world,” was given so many centuries ago, there are still one thousand million non-Christians in the world. And this appalling condition exists because we have not had true views of our place in the fight. We have looked upon mission work as work for men specially called of God, and toward which it was a pious thing to contribute some small part of our surplus means. But we have never realized that it was a fight into which we were to put ourselves and all God gave us. The idea that it is as much the duty of every Christian to be entirely in the campaign as it was the duty of Livingstone, Paton, Moffat, Mackay, Clough, Judson, and a host of others, has not dawned on us, and so the centuries have told the dreary tale of failure, and two thirds of the race have not yet heard the sweet story of Christ.—China’s Millions.