Our Work by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 5, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 44.

Our Work

By Editor

Our Work.—Says an exchange: "The religious Hindu is ever striving to find out some way of satisfying the inner cravings of his soul. Numerous instances have occurred of Hindus who lived in wealth and luxury, tearing themselves from their plenty and comfort and the enjoyment of everything included in a worldling's highest ideal, and consecrating themselves to lives of voluntary poverty and the most ascetic severity. They have striven by every imaginable means to mortify desire for the most ordinary and commonplace creature comforts, so that they might, perchance, discover the highest human ideal, and find salvation. The amount of corporal punishment and penance and of torture inflicted on their bodies by means of unsparing in severity, would sound incredible in the ears of modern western people." We Christians have a message to the world, telling every one what he must do to be saved. The time for giving this message is nearing the end. What is being done for those poor "religious Hindus"? Who will carry the message of salvation, of the approaching crisis, to them and to other sinking millions, if we allow ourselves to be lured from duty by the business and political strifes and excitements of the world? The man who truly seeks first the kingdom of God and his righteousness will have no time for anything else. God has said as much, for he has promised to add whatever else we need. Then let Christians attend strictly to the business entrusted to us by the Lord. The King's business requires haste.