p. 6 | Out in the Deep by William A. Spicer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 4, 1909

Out in the Deep

By William A. Spicer

THERE is joy in laboring to win hearts to the Lord Jesus anywhere. The burden for souls does not come and go with changing place or scene. But with a given field to cover before the work can be finished, there is inspiration in seeing the boundaries of our effort enlarging, and the deepest joy in the consciousness of working to supply the greatest need. “Launch out into the deep,” is the word that comes to us, “and let down your nets for a draft.”

Last year a young brother left the Foreign Mission Seminary for a country where one minister, and he with failing health, faced millions of Catholic peoples. The young brother had calls to work at home, but the needs in the mission field appealed most strongly. Now he writes:—

We have experiences daily which water our souls, and make us thank God for a part in his work. I am more contented here than I was at any time in the States. There is so much to do here, such battles to be fought, such vast multitudes in darkness! What a privilege to be used of God in giving them the light!

Hundreds must follow on into the fields. The conferences will not weary of training young workers into strength, and then seeing them called away to mission fields. We are obeying the word to launch out into the deep of the world's great need. It is the only thing to do.

Scores of workers with good experience as canvassers, teachers, nurses, or evangelists, are needed continually in the Foreign Mission Seminary, adding to their qualifications while waiting, but ready any day to respond as the right call comes in from the fields. W. A. S.