THE SPANISH PEOPLE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 12, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 15.

THE SPANISH PEOPLE.

READER, what do you owe them? What are their claims upon you, who have the light of present truth? Jesus says, "Ye are the light of the world." To whom is he speaking?—To his disciples. Reader, are you one of his? If so, it means you, only change the pronoun to me as you read it.

Now James says, "The word is able to save your souls," that is, life. Christ says, "God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world might live by means of him." John 3:17 (Murdock's Syriac). "I am the light [life] of the world; he that followeth me" "shall have the light of life." In John 1:4 we read, "In him was life, and the life was the light of men." And that light the Lord designs shall shine through his people. Here is your commission: "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, . . . to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you." Matt. 28: 19, 20. Now the Spanish people are a part of the nations of the world; and since you are commanded to go to them, and you do not go, do you not see that you are responsible (by keeping from them the means of salvation) for their lives, and really become by this transgressors of God's law?

Now in Mexico alone there are over two hundred and sixty cities with populations ranging from 2,000 to 50,000 each, four with over 50,000, and one with 91,685. Then there are smaller cities and villages and the country. In all of these they call for the "Light of the world."

To meet and answer this call you can now get from the Pacific Press Publishing Co., Oakland, Cal., the following tracts in the Spanish language: "Living by Faith," a translation of Bible Students' Library No. 75; "Righteousness," a translation of Bible Students' Library No. 71; "Inheritance of the Saints," and the "Angels of God"—each of which is a collection of seven Bible readings on different subjects, and a 4-page leaflet, "This Rock, or the Foundation of the Church," a translation of which appeared in the SIGNS OF THE TIMES of Jan. 22, 1894, page 182. Orders for any of the above will be promptly filled.