Editorial by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 19, 1907

Editorial

By Editor

If our brethren and sisters who have been blessed with means could once have a vision of the waiting fields and their needs, and could have pressed upon their hearts the burden for those who sit in darkness, what a privilege they would feel it to be to give of their means for the extension of this message in all lands! Think of the four hundred millions in China! Think of the three hundred millions in India! Remember that one half of the population of the world is found in China, India, and Africa. Our workers who are toiling beyond their strength in these heathen lands are under no greater obligation to minister to these benighted people than are those who are adding farm to farm or thousands to thousands while surrounded with all the comforts and conveniences which money can furnish. What a pity that the work of God should be embarrassed for funds when he has made his people stewards over abundance! Will not some render their account with shame unless they are more faithful in their stewardship? Read Luke 16:11.

The provision has been made that we may be in continual fellowship with a personal Christ. He has not only given himself for us, but has also given himself to us and united himself with us. “Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.” “Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same.” “Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them.” Herein is the essential difference between Christianity and the many forms of false religion. By taking upon him our nature Christ has made possible the experience of oneness between himself and the believer, and thus becomes not only the Teacher of truth, but also the power for living the truth. If we fail to avail ourselves of this wonderful provision, our religious experience may not rise above the plane of the devotee of Confucius or Buddha. “Yet a little while,” said Jesus to his disciples, “and the world beholdeth me no more; but ye behold me: because I live, ye shall live also. In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” We can not afford to be deprived of personal fellowship with our risen Saviour.