p. 16 | Missionary Funds by Wm. Covert

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 19, 1902

Missionary Funds

By Wm. Covert

BRETHREN and sisters, what are you doing to support the missionaries in the wide field? Are you making offerings

from week to week, that the treasury may be kept filled with funds? The Lord keeps us in this world that his cause may be advanced. A thousand million of our fellow creatures are in heathen darkness, and a large per cent of the other third of the human family are unconverted. We who have been given the light of present truth are required to give it to others. It is too precious to be withheld. Could we but know how very desirous our Saviour is to have us hasten the message of love and mercy to the perishing world, I feel sure there would be an exceeding great increase in our offerings.

Our Mission Board is compelled to say “No” to many calls from anxious ones who wish to hear the precious story, because no one is ready to go, and because the funds are short. Brethren, is it not possible for us to keep a constant flow running into the treasury? A strong and steadily flowing stream is what is needed. It would be easier to do the work this way than to allow an unsteady and uneven state of affairs to prevail.

If the brethren who are in charge of the work could know that missionaries would be properly supported, they could in a short time place our workers in every country upon earth. Can any one think of a thing more to be desired than this? Do we wish to see sinners saved more than we crave gold? Do we long to have the night of sin come to an end? Are not our hearts yearning for the better land? Then let us see to it that the last message of mercy is rapidly carried to the whole world. Has not the time come when there should be delay no longer?

Wm. Covert.