Men Wanted by L. D. Santee

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 16, 1870

Men Wanted.

By L. D. Santee

JUST before the bloody period called in history “the French Revolution,” meetings were held by the dissatisfied people for the furtherance of their object. At one of their gatherings, a member, M. Barbaroux, I think it was, made a speech about the oppression of the people, and at its close called for one thousand men that knew how to die. His demand reached the hearts of the people, and soon the men called for came. There were not many of them, but they were stern and terrible, and bore an important part in the terrible scenes that converted France into a field of slaughter, and made the land a land of pillaged cities and murdered inhabitants. To-day we are making a call for men that know how to live. Oh! that we could make the call with such earnestness that all would respond. In the name of suffering humanity, by the thousands of beds of pain, we entreat you to come and be as zealous in the cause of life as others have been in the cause of death. Consider the fast-filling churchyards into which the loved are sinking and then stretch forth your hands to save the fallen. The sick on every hand are turning to you, imploring help. You cannot work miracles as did our Pattern; but in conjunction with nature you may do much. First bring your body into subjection, and then reason to others of righteousness, temperance, and Judgment to come. Teach them that godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. Then will you be a friend of humanity and a child of God. L. D. SANTEE.