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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 20, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 3.

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Mission Notes

Within less than thirty years the Rhenish Society will have gathered in the Toba country, Sumatra, 90 churches, 12,000 members, and 4,000 candidates under instruction, located in seventeen chief stations, surrounded by their branches.
The Christian life necessitates missionary work. You cannot help loving, caring for, and going to the lost, if there be within you the love of God. Therefore, I want to say that if you find you have no interest in missionary work, before you criticise it, go to some quiet place of soul communion with God, and let him criticise you, and you will discover that, somehow or somewhere, even if that life was there, it has become extinguished. For your own soul’s safety test your relationship to God by your interest in this great work. Missionary work is the necessary outcome of Christian life. It is not a privilege of life—it is a necessity of life. Live the Christian life, and you are bound to be a missionary.—G. Campbell Morgan.