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Unity in Missionary Work

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 16, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 11.

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Unity in Missionary Work

"That they all may be one" was the burden of Christ's prayer for His disciples; and His desire was that the unity between them should be as the union between Him and His Father. The purpose of this desire,like that of every other desire of His loving heart, is that the world may believe that God sent Him to save men. Here, then, is the first requisite for missionary work—oneness of heart on the part of those who would engage in it. This unity can be attained only by all having the mind of Christ, humbling themselves, that God may be in them, as He was in Christ, "reconciling the world unto Himself." Christ acknowledged that of Himself He could do nothing, so we must realize the same truth. "For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure."