p. 182 | The True Missionary by H. F. Phelps

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 19, 1874

The True Missionary.

By H. F. Phelps

NOTWITHSTANDING several have spoken about this indispensable little sheet, I still have a desire to add my testimony. Four numbers have come to hand, been read and re-read, and some read the third time. It cost me just fifty cents. I have got my pay in full already—yes, more. It cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. I would not do, without it; I could not think of it; I had rather go without a meal now and then to pay for it. I am sorry to learn that its circulation is so small. Brethren, allow me to say to you that it really seems to me you have sustained a fearful loss. Many plead hard upon times—no means. Oh! that we had more love for the cause of truth. Oh! that it might be more than meat and drink to do the will of God. Do we realize the meaning of these words, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God”?

This paper is filled with words of truth—words of courage, of counsel, of instruction, words from the pens of those whose very souls are swallowed up in this glorious cause of truth. We, who have the last message of mercy to a dying world, we, who see the abyss, the fearful abyss to which this world is hastening, we, upon whom such fearful responsibilities rest, can poorly afford to lose any means by which we can become efficient laborers in the vineyard of our Master. Are we awake? I fear we are not. Yet all who do not receive and read the True Missionary are losing one of the means, and a very important one, to help us on, and show us what we can do, and where we can

lift to the most advantage. May God help us to awake.

“In God we put our trust, In him we know no fear, Come, saints, your heads lift up, And see redemption near.”

H. F. PHELPS.

Pine Island, Minn.