Honan, China by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 18, 1910

Honan, China

By Editor

LAST week we had an article from Mrs. Westrup, one of our missionaries in China. This week we take the following from a letter received some time ago from her husband, Pastor John J. Westrup:

Earthquakes, tidal waves, volcanic eruptions, storms, wars, rebellions, crime of all sorts, and a hundred other things tell us that the coming of Jesus our King is near, even at the doors. We are in the last days of earth's history. The four angels of God are holding the winds of war and destruction until the servants of God are sealed in their forehead. Rev. 7:1-3. Everything, apparently, except the children of God and their unfinished work, seems to be ready for the great transformation. Yet there are many honest souls to be gathered out from the four hundred millions in this land. And our Lord will not come till His work is finished among the nations of the earth. It behooves Christians not to delay that coming, but to throw their whole heart and soul into the work of giving His message.

Seemingly China is behind every other field, considering the vastness of the work to be done; and yet its millions of people can and must be evangelized, and that soon. From a human view-point this can not be done. God must be taken into the reckoning. He is well able to keep His word and to finish His work in this generation. Let us look at the stars as did Abraham. Think of the systems and worlds that God upholds with His right hand of righteousness, and then know that the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity dwells with him also that is of a humble and contrite heart. Isa. 57:15. There is no limit to what may be done when men are connected with God. When the latter rain shall be poured out in its fulness, there will be those in China who will receive it, and who will work mightily in bringing souls to the Master.