What Shall We Give? by W. A. S.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 19, 1903

What Shall We Give?

By W. A. S.

DURING the General Conference term twenty-three hundred Sabbath-keepers were added to our ranks in the lands abroad. On every continent willing hearts are waiting for the message. A pile of letters lies on the desk in the General Conference office—from our comrades whom the churches have sent out with their prayers to Africa, and Asia, to Europe, and South and Central America, and the islands of the sea. They all tell of ripening fields. They all plead for more means and more workers to fill calls that are manifestly God's own providences. The requests are all so modest and so urgent. It is an awful

thing to wait among the perishing millions for the help that does not come. But we are taking up a very hard line of correspondence. We are having to tell our brethren that they must wait for the mission offerings to increase before new work may be undertaken. How true of this situation are the words of Sister White at the recent Conference:—

I have been commissioned to instruct our people to be economical, and always ready to give of their means to the Lord's work. If you have a thousand dollars to spare, God wants it; it belongs to him. If you have twenty dollars to spare, God wants it. His vineyard is waiting to be worked.

Shall not both the twenties and the thousands flow into the treasury at once, so that the cheering word to advance may go out to our fellow workers in the lands afar, and in the needy Southern and city fields in our own land? May we not quickly send this word to the fields? Pray definitely for it; for the time is surely come for such a humbling of heart for lack of zeal, and for such a consecration of means and of service as shall finish the work of warning every nation and tongue. Then we shall see Jesus.

W. A. S.