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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Jul 11, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 28.

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The Task Committed to Us

By C. M. S.

As truly as ever Israel of old was called and set for a light to the Gentiles, so truly has this people been called and commissioned to carry to the world a message of truth and of light. To this people as well as to that applies this scripture: "I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth." Isa. 49:6.
The people to whom the third angel's message is committed are carrying the last message of salvation "unto the end of the earth." In a double sense is this true; for while this movement is designed to make God's last message known to every "nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people," thus reaching the end of the earth in that sense, the completion of that work means the completion of earth's history. In other words, this great message in going to the ends of the earth, brings the end of the world. The finishing of God's work for man is a work of tremendous importance. No more important trust was ever committed to man. The importance of the task and the honor of the trust ought to appeal to every Seventh-day Adventist, and cause him to lay aside every selfish ambition and consecrate every faculty, every energy, and every gift to the completion of the work God has given us to perform. God has greatly honored this people. Let us not dishonor him by selfishness, by laxity, by dishonesty, or by disloyalty.
We have a mighty work before us. To do it aright, we need divine grace and wisdom and power above any other people in the world. The treasury and the arsenal of heaven are filled with all we need. God has even placed in our hands the key that will place their contents at our disposal; it is prayer. With that key in our hands, and heaven thus opened to our demands, the work which God has given to us can be done.
As Christ blessed the few loaves and fishes, enabling his disciples to feed the entire five thousand, so may this people, with God's blessing upon what they have and what they do, carry this bread of life to all the world. C. M. S.