Our Marching Orders—“Into all the World”
By W. A. S.
OVER and over again the Lord has emphasized, for our special benefit in these last days, the great commission in which he gave the church its marching orders: “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” In order that we in these very last days should know that the order is still for us, he added: “And, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” After the passing of the time in 1844, as the advent believers caught the fulness of the gospel truth in the third angel’s message, the commission was repeated: “Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.” Not only have we the command, “Go ye into all the world,” but the prophet John was shown the remnant church actually going with the message: “I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come.” This is the work we are engaged in, and thus repeatedly and continually the Lord Jesus urges us on into the regions beyond, across the world-wide field. Never for a moment can we rest until the warning message rings out in every tongue. Then will come the end of the work, and the gathering of the fruit. “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and peoples, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.” These souls are waiting for the message now. God has given us the honor of carrying it to them. How the angels who do his will in heaven, swift to obey every command, must long to see us respond with a mighty onward movement to the command of their Captain and ours as he repeats to us now the commission: “Go ye into all the world,” “And, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.”