The True Missionary by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 13, 1874

The True Missionary.

By Uriah Smith

It has long been held before us in a light calculated to stir every heart, and it has long been a reproach to us as a people, that we are behind the opening providence of God in the work committed to our hands. Is this reproach to stick to us forever?

The True Missionary is at length issued. But although from unavoidable causes it has been delayed beyond the time when it was at first designed to publish it, where are its subscribers? Where are those friends of the cause for whose benefit it is especially designed? Not more than one-eighth the number of names has been sent in that should be on the books to-day. Every lover of the cause should by this time have this first number in his hands and its principles in his heart. It is full of life and spirit and instruction. Every one should have it. The times and the occasion call for a grand rally. The next number will be issued the first of February. By that time, let the list be full. U. S.