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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 20, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 51.

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Heaven-Blessed Ammunition

OUR missionary papers, filled with the truth of God and bearing his last warning message to a doomed world, are the arrows of our conquest. With God's blessing upon them they must fly straight to the mark, bearing individual witness for him. God is using them now, and souls are being brought to a knowledge of the truth through their ministry. This ammunition, designed of heaven and blessed in its use for God here, is ready to our hands. We must not let it lie idle. No battle was ever won with ammunition that was left in the cases. Some of our people are learning what can be accomplished by a judicious use of our missionary periodicals. More need to learn it—more must learn it or fail of a part in the triumphant close of this message. Let the papers be circulated. Brethren who know of this work only through the experience of others, lend a hand and reap a blessing. It is good to hear about; it is better to have it to tell about. Take the Signs or the Watchman, equip yourself with the armor of a Christian soldier, and go forth. Generally speaking, one's own timidity is the most remorseless foe he will meet on such a campaign. Conquer it, with God's help. Men and women have fought a battle with that internal foe at the gate of every house they entered, and then have gone home at night tired, but triumphant. Such work wins heaven's approbation,—and it wins souls. There ought to be a hundred of these good papers circulated where there is one. None are barred from the work. All have friends, neighbors, or relatives unwarned; and all can do something to help swell the grand total of what must be accomplished. Now is the time to work. The resting period must be on the other side of the conflict. What David did with a pebble you can do with one of these arrows of God's truth. We are looking for, and praying for, the victorious culmination of the third angel's message; but we must have a part in bringing about that culmination, or we can not share in the rewards it brings. Let us individually resolve to do our part, and make no delay in carrying the resolution into effect.