Another Call by L. N. Muck

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 15, 1906

Another Call

By L. N. Muck

L. N. MUCK

For more than sixty-two years the third angel’s message has been proclaimed throughout these United States. It has been heralded until it has encircled the earth; and yet many have never heard of it. Why?

There are in the United States eighty millions of people, and various means are employed to bring them to God. Many churches have sprung up, and missionary work is being carried on in the most isolated places. Printing houses have been established, and the country is flooded with literature containing the story of the cross. And yet two hundred thousand blind people are overlooked. They are groping their way in darkness, with few to extend a hand of sympathy to lift them up.

What are the Adventists doing for the seeing? We have four large publishing houses,—the Review and Herald, the Southern Publishing Association, the Pacific Press Publishing Company, and the International Publishing Association. The various classes are provided for; but what are we doing for the blind? Two hundred thousand are anxiously appealing to the public for something to read. A great effort is being put forth by this denomination to grind out the printed page. Money is being raised to provide books and papers and tracts for the seeing; and while this is being done, very few stop to consider the needs of the unfortunate ones,—those who are in double darkness, those who can not read for themselves, those who are without means to buy the expensive literature,—and yet the great commission is given to us, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”

Again we beseech you, brethren, to “lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest.” Consider the needs of this class; consider this large number of truth-loving men and women. The King’s command is to go out quickly and bring in the maimed, the poor, the halt, and the blind. Will you help us? Will you unite with us in carrying this gospel to them? They must be saved. Their souls are just as precious in the sight of God as those who see, and if we neglect to help them, we shall be held responsible in the judgment.

I believe the time has come for us to rally to the support of the work for the blind. It needs your help, it needs your means. It can not be carried on in the same way as the REVIEW and The Signs of the Times. It is a missionary enterprise. It must be carried on by donations. The blind are too poor to buy literature; and yet bright minds are crying out everywhere, What must we do to be saved?

We are told from excellent authority that there is another magazine entering the field. It is not to contain the third angel’s message, but current news, music, art; and it is intended to entertain. That is very good in its place. But unless we put forth an effort to place the Christian Record in the hands of the blind who can not pay for it, I fear that the work of the Christian Record will be handicapped. This new magazine is to be free to all the blind who desire to read it. Can we as believers of the third angel’s message keep silent? Do we dare let this work go down for lack of means? Dear brother, I beseech you in the name of Jesus to lift up your eyes and behold fields white already to harvest. Again I appeal to you to unite with us in bringing in the maimed, the poor, the halt, and the blind.

Send all donations to Miss Katie Coleman, secretary of Christian Record, and the fund will be turned over to the Central Union Conference treasurer.

College View, Neb.