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The Work in Maine

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 19, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 27.

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The Work in Maine.

By J. B. Goodrich

THE interest in the Tract and Missionary work in our State is increasing with some. Canvassing for the SIGNS is proving a success. There are those all around us that have an ear to hear, and some precious souls are thirsting for the truth and are willing to read and search to know if these things are so.
The work of warning the world of the coming judgment is a solemn and important work, and but few of us realize the solemn hours in which we are living. Could we sense the fact as we should, that in a short time we shall stand before God in judgment to give an account of every act of our lives, and that our works will decide our eternal destiny, we should be very careful to maintain good works. A living faith in the Third Angel's Message is what is needed, and without it we shall not succeed in overcoming the world the flesh and the devil. Money put into the cause to help spread this truth and prepare a people for the time of trouble which will soon come upon those that reject light, and will not obey the message which is sent from Heaven to do them good, will finally bring about greater results to the donor than money at interest; for one soul saved is of more value than all the world besides.
The spirit of sacrifice and to live to do others good is too much overlooked. When we think of Jesus and his life of sacrifice, can we not make a stronger effort to deny self and to deprive ourselves of a few luxuries that do us no good, that we may put a few dollars into the cause to help another to see the truth? The religion of the Bible is unselfish; there is but one pure kind in the world and that is founded upon the principle of divine love. James says: It is to visit the widows and fatherless in their affliction and to keep ourselves unspotted from the world; in other words, it is to love our neighbor as ourselves, and as we would that men should do to us, to do even so to them. This principle carried out will lead us to become interested for the salvation of those that are in danger of being consumed in the fire of the last day.
It is the real missionary spirit that we very much need in this time of danger when so few feel the burden for souls to enable them to put forth the effort that they should to rescue the perishing. May the Lord help us to do our whole duty and work while it is yet day for when the night cometh no man can work.
Hartland, June 20. J. B. GOODRICH.