Missionary Department by J. N. L.

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 26, 1875

Missionary Department.

By J. N. L.

"In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand; for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good." Eccl. 11 : 6.

A Missionary Worker.

A TRUE missionary must be one who has a just and realizing sense of the dignity and importance of the work in which he is engaged, and one who gives his life, his energies, his all, if need be, to advance the work of his mission, laboring unselfishly for the good of others, seeking to lead them in the straight and narrow way.

While the cause of God, at the present time, demands just such laborers, few, alas, are to be found. While, as in Paul's time, men are needed, who, Timothy-like, will "naturally care for the state of God's people and cause, the masses, even among professors, "seek their own, and not the things that are Jesus Christ's." It is not that there is no work to be done, and no open opportunities to do good, that no more is accomplished; but, alas! it is putting off what might be done now to a more convenient season.

We that trust in our T. and M. work, while we are learning how to do the work, we should do with our might what our hands find to do. As we have said before, we must not get our ideas limited by the scope of our immediate acquaintance, or neighborhood, or language. How do we know what might be done by dropping a tract in the hands of those even of a foreign tongue. Our eyes should be open to discern every possible opportunity to get the light before our fellowmen. We commend the article in this department from Bro. Sawyer on the "Magnitude of Missions." There is work to be done. Who will do it? J. N. L.