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The Transfer of Workers

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 13, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 2.

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The Transfer of Workers

By Clarence Santee

CLARENCE SANTEE
ONE thing that has been a means of great benefit to this people has been the constant exchange of laborers from North to South, from South to North, East to West, and West to East. It has largely taken away the sectional feeling that will have to be left outside of the gates of the city of God.
This feeling is natural to the human heart, and has caused the loss of many souls. It has cost the lives of many missionaries in different parts of the world. They have been regarded as strangers, as interlopers, and as such have been maligned and misused.
Our Southern men going to the North have felt the atmosphere, which, even among this waiting people, has said, “We can carry our work without you.” Men from the North, going to the South, have heard the same: “We do not need you; we can carry our own work.” The East and the West have had the same experience. But a loving God has borne with our weaknesses, and has labored on to the desired end. He will have no sectional Seventh-day Adventists. Some may think best to divide and become two churches, or denominations—the North and the South; others may draw party lines with all their worldly hatreds and animosities; but this people must be one.
God in wisdom has caused a constant exchange of laborers. The warm enthusiasm of the South has mingled with the more formal natures of the North, the venturesome ambition of the West has been modified by, and has modified, the extreme caution of the East; and in this way North, South, East, and West become one, with elements so varied and complete that God can educate them until every grace will shine forth in them. A Peter and a John are necessary, a Paul and a Barnabas, and from these unions there will come forth a people with one mind and one purpose. No North, no South, no West, no East,—all will confess that they are strangers here, waiting for the one home that will give the promised rest,—the home where Christ and God can dwell with them, and where everlasting peace and joy will be shared together.
Keene, Tex.