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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 24, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 12.

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"GO."

By Wm. Penniman

BY WM. PENNIMAN.
Our Saviour says: "Go ye therefore and teach all nations," etc. Rev. Sia Sek Ong, one of the native pastors, preached at a recent Methodist Conference at Foochow, China (so says the Christian Advocate), from the single word "go." "Leave father, mother, friends, fields, preachers go thus; world-men don't like to go in that fashion. Where must we go? To the sea, for the fish. They are not on the surface; they are in the depths. We may find shrimps in shallow water, but we must go to the deep water for the large fish. Go to the mountains to seek the lost sheep. There are lions and tigers and snakes in the mountains, but we must go, not to find sport, but to find the sheep. Go to the vineyard, to work, to watch, to plant, to water. Go to the field to sow seed. Study the soil and sow accordingly. Field-work is not play. Go to the market place, and bid guests to the Master's feast. Go into the army, to fight, to wrestle with the devil, to put forth your strength, and to come home singing songs of victory. Ask the Master for Peter's hook to bring up the right fish: for David's crook to guide the sheep aright; for Gideon's torch to light up the dark places; for gospel seed without any tares in it; for Moses' guiding rod; for the brazen serpent, to cure the bites of the world's snakes; for David's sling to prostrate your giant foe; for the armor inventoried by Paul in the last chapter of Ephesians; but above all, for the wonderful Holy Spirit to help at all times. If we have all these it is no matter where we go. We will come with rejoicing to conference next year, with songs and shouts of victory."