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Wanted — Men

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 30, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 52.

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“Wanted — Men”

This headline is copied from the Central China Christian, published at Nanking. The missionaries are begging for more men. Can those qualified resist the call, the greatest call that ever came to man? There is more Christlike honor resting upon our missionaries in other lands than can be found in any field of Christian usefulness.
Men are wanted. The men that I have met abroad strike me as being the honor guard of Christ, the advance guard of Christian civilization, the heralds of the cross and church.
Men are wanted,—men who are equipped mentally, socially, spiritually. And what a welcome awaits them! A welcome similar to that which awaits the finally triumphant in heaven, for these missionaries feel a thrill of companionship, of sympathy, of love, and of service which can only be experienced amid hideous idols, warped minds, and diseased bodies. Men are wanted,—preachers, teachers, educators, physicians,—men and women who feel the call of God, and who respond, as did Livingstone and Carey and Marsden. There are more physicians in New York than in all China!
The doors are open, the fields are white, the needs are urgent, the toil is great, the reward is sure. Who will go and step in Christ’s footsteps?—Selected.