p. 823 | PASS IT ALONG

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 25, 1900

PASS IT ALONG

Christ filled the cup of salvation with His own hands. He gave it to His disciples to drink. Drink, and pass it along. “Freely ye have received, freely give.” “Ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” “Go ye therefore.”

So the apostles partook, and then passed it on. They of Jerusalem passed it on to Antioch; and they of Antioch passed it on to Ephesus and Corinth and Philippi; and they of Ephesus, Corinth, and Philippi passed it on to Rome; and they of Rome passed it on to Britain; and they of Britain passed it on to us in America; and we of America are to pass it on to Japan, and China, and India, and to the isles of the sea which have it not.

But there are some who hold on to the cup, and will not pass it on. “It is good,” they say; “blessed! oh, most blessed!” but they will not pass it on. The heathen are perishing for want of that cup, but they will not pass it on. There is more salvation in that cup than they can ever use themselves, but they will not pass it along. When others say, “We have found it so good ourselves, let us pass it over to those millions of poor Chinamen,” they say, “No, we are not interested in foreign missions.”

And so the Lord waits. For “this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”—Selected.