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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 11, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 15.

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What Are We Going to Do?

By G. B. Thompson

G. B. THOMPSON
In India there are three hundred million souls to whom the gospel is to be carried. There are more than this number in China. To all these we are debtor to give the gospel. We have preached for years that the end is near, and we believe it is. This is our faith; it is our hope. Remove, or in anywise change, this glorious truth, and our hope is lost, our faith is vain.
We are face to face with a stupendous problem. I ask, What do we propose to do about it? not, What are we to say, to sing, to feel, to pray about it? We have made a beginning in all lands. The message, thank the Lord, has girdled the globe. But what we see is only a beginning; a few pebbles have been gathered from the ocean of sin—from its deepest, darkest spots; but its mighty flood of humanity yet lies before us unexplored. What do we intend to do about it? Time is short, and the King's business demands haste; what is done must be done quickly; it must be done now.
It is not enough to feel deeply over the matter. It is all right to feel, but feelings alone will not save souls. Had Jesus simply felt concerning the lost condition of man, the race would have been doomed. It took Calvary to save man. The Father had to give something. The Son had to give himself. This, and this only, will solve the mighty problem of warning the world in this generation.
One mission writer has truly said, “We must remember that it was not by interceding for the world in glory that Jesus saved it. He gave himself. Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony so long as we give only of our superfluity, and draw back before the sacrifice of ourselves.”
Like the churches of Macedonia, we need to give ourselves to God, to be used as he may see fit. “So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he can not be my disciple.” Here is God’s definition of a disciple. Are we truly his disciples? Let us study this scripture in the light of our duty to finish the work in this generation.
Calcutta, India.