Our Responsibility to the Heathen
By The Leader
It should never be forgotten that doing our duty to the people at home, however faithfully it is done, does not meet the claims of the 200,000,000 heathen of Africa nor of the 286,000,000 heathen of India, nor of the 400,000,000 of China, who have nobody at home to care for them. Let us be faithful and earnest at home, and those that are really most earnest and self-sacrificing at home will be most anxious to help those abroad who "have no helpers." There are thirty times as many heathen as there are evangelical Christians in the world, so that over against every Christian, besides the unsaved at home there stand thirty heathen. For them he is responsible. They are his share. If he does not give them the gospel, he has no right to presume that it will be given to them by anybody. We cannot escape this responsibility, short of doing our best. If we have not done our best to save these thirty, how can we say with Paul, "I am pure from the blood of all men." How much ought I to pay, to do to enlist others in the work, and to give to meet such a responsibility? —The Leader.