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The Missionary Thermometer

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 11, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 10.

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The Missionary Thermometer

By Editor

The Lord’s rebuke is upon the Laodicean Church because it is “lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot.” Perhaps the best index to the spiritual condition of the Church is the degree of interest which it shows in mission work. When the missionary spirit dies out, the real life of the Church is gone. Our missionary thermometer on page three indicates a lukewarm temperature, and we fear that the reading is too true. We should be glad to see the mercury take a sudden jump to the “altar fire” point, with a steady rise after that. “Is your heart warm, glowing?”