Why Should Our Churches Sustain Foreign Missions
33%Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Sep 3, 1903
FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 35.
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“Why should a preacher preach? Why should a teacher teach? Why should a physician attend to the sick? Why should a farmer till the soil? Why should a merchant buy and sell goods and import or export fabrics? Why should a soldier fight? Why should a sailor traverse the ocean? Why should a railroad corporation transport freights and passengers from place to place? Why should a manufacturing company produce commodities of one sort or another? In short, why should any man do precisely what is involved in his chosen calling? Or why should any body of men engage in the very work that expresses the declared purpose of their corporate life?”