Apathy and Coldness

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 3, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 44.

Apathy and Coldness

It argues strongly for coldness among professed Christians when we read in The Examiner the sad lament of the Baptist Missionary Union, the missionaries of which have done such noble work. It adopts this year a schedule of appropriations aggregating $408,899.18, which is $50,000 less than a proper administration of Baptist mission fields demands. Yet this “is $17,238 less than last year’s schedule. It is $37,878 less than the schedule for 1896, and $49,982 less than that for 1895. The committee desires to know if the churches wish this reduction to go on. It can go no further without the abandonment of some of our missions and the neglect of our property in foreign countries, valued at $714,000.” This ought not to be. These stirring times ought to arouse Christians everywhere to consecration of themselves and their means to Christ and His cause. Truly the words of our Saviour are appropriate: “And because iniquity shall abound [abounds], the love of the many shall wax [has waxed] cold.”