LET THE PREACHERS GO TO THE UNCONVERTED.
By Editor
The following was part of an article written by Brother Joseph Clarke in 1858. Is it not applicable now? Let us who are the children of the light not be outdone by the world. Let us learn wisdom by every means. Let us go right to God with our troubles and trials, and he will help us. Are we cold and lukewarm? let us cry mightily to God, then shall our light break forth speedily. What is the use of our crying out, Oh, if Brother Cornell, or Brother White, or Brother Waggoner, or Brother Loughborough, or Brother Holt, or some other preacher would come and preach to us, then how we would rise, surely! No, no, let these messengers go with the message to the millions who have not heard a lisp of it, to the benighted millions over whom the seven last plagues impend. Yes, go, go, and we, the churches who have a flood of light, will walk in the light. We have more light now than we use. Go, ye messengers of mercy, to the cities and villages of our land, while the church in the light bears its own burdens. To the church belongs the duty of sustaining a spirit of devotion. Yes, let the church encourage and inspirit its messengers, and bear them on. Let the church nourish its own young, strengthen the feeble, comfort its mourners, in short, bear its own burdens.