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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 11, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 24.

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Wants to Preach

By C. P. Lillie

C. P. LILLIE
THE spirit of service shown by many of the Chinese Christians is illustrated by the following statement made by a recently converted coolie in Shantung Province: “I want to preach,” he said. “If I could only give up one year of my life fully to the preaching of the gospel my cup of happiness would be full. Oh, yes, to preach many years I am willing, but that would be too good to come true! Oh for just one year doing nothing but preaching God’s word! That would be a wonderful token of his ‘favor.’”
In this province there are about forty million people, and only about twenty-five thousand Protestant church members—one to every sixteen hundred. The task of bringing the gospel to these millions is truly a great one, but the door of opportunity is wide open. Christian readers, what is it to you? How shall any “preach, except they be sent”?
Changsha.