General Conference Bulletin, vol. 3

OUR PRESENT NEEDS

L. A. HOOPESI. H. EVANS

We need men. We need means. In the United States we use several times as much money each year in carrying forward the work, as in all regions beyond. If every church should this coming year donate weekly a sum equal to ten cents per member, three hundred more workers could be put into foreign fields, and all be sustained. GCB October 1, 1899, page 87.2

The needs of a thousand million heathen appeal to us to send them the gospel. Their dying cries should pierce every heart, and their hopeless condition stir us to action. GCB October 1, 1899, page 87.3

Our missionaries must be supported. Away from friends and home, with no means but their meager wages, with opposition on every hand, maligned, despised, and often under great physical suffering, they start the work of the last message. These workers need our prayers. Let earnest petitions ascend in behalf of our brethren who have gone to carry the gospel to these benighted regions. These missionaries are our missionaries, and they deserve our support and sympathy. Their trials, privations, and heartaches we can never know; but their shouts of victory we may share when the sheaves are gathered home. GCB October 1, 1899, page 87.4

The Foreign Mission Board needs fifty thousand dollars at this time to help carry its present force of workers. All should take a part in this great work, and liberally give to carry the message to the “regions beyond.” Two hundred and eighty-three workers were on the list at the last audit of our foreign workers. GCB October 1, 1899, page 87.5

Some may say, Can the Lord ever come, if all this great work remains to be done? We answer, Yes. God can do wonders when his people consecrate their lives to his service. Jonah could warn a million of people in three days, and they were heathen, too. The power of God was upon him. What we need is a new consecration, Worldliness, the love of ease, and other things have entered many of our hearts, and the spirit of real self-denial is but little seen in our daily lives. GCB October 1, 1899, page 87.6

Great responsibilities rest upon us as a people, and let us all be true to our appointed task. God will accomplish his work shortly, and bring us the long reign of peace and joy, when all the family of God are gathered home. Now to the task of soul-saving, of self-denial, and soon the year of jubilee will bring us rest in the Kingdom of God. GCB October 1, 1899, page 87.7

I. H. EVANS. GCB October 1, 1899, page 87.8