The work for the relief of our schools should
be taken up by our people in all countries. Let it be entered
upon by our churches in Australasia. Our school there is in need
of help, and if our people will take hold of the work unitedly,
they can do much toward lifting the burden of debt; they can
encourage the hearts of those who are laboring to build up this,
the Lord's instrumentality; and they can aid in extending its
influence of blessing to far heathen lands and to the islands
of the sea.
We trust that our publishing house in Australia
will make liberal terms in the publication of Christ's Object
Lessons. The Lord has greatly blessed this institution, and it
should present to Him a thank offering by making no stinted donation
toward freeing the school from debt. We feel sure that it will
take up the work and act its part nobly. And this co-operation
with God will prove to the Australian publishing house as great
a blessing as it has proved to our institutions in America.
Move out in this work, my brethren in Australasia.
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1. Have we not proved this
in the past? As we have moved out, trusting God's promise, things
unseen, except by the eye of faith, have become things seen.
As we have walked and worked by faith, God has fulfilled to us
every word He has spoken. The evidence we have of the faithfulness
of His promises should check every
thought of unbelief. It is a sin to doubt, and we do not believe
that our brethren in Australasia will be guilty of this.
The Lord has done much for you all through
your borders. Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, already
white for the harvest. Praise God that His word has been verified
beyond all our conception.
I call upon our people to enter earnestly
and disinterestedly upon the work of freeing the school from
debt. Let the publishing house do its part in the publication
of the book. Let our people throughout Australasia take hold
of the sale of Christ's Object Lessons. God will bless them in
this work.
The workers in England should make every
possible effort in the sale of this book, that a school may be
established in that country. My brethren in England, Germany,
and all other European countries where the light of truth is
shining, take hold of this work. Let this book be translated
into the different languages and circulated in the different
countries of Europe. Let our canvassers in all parts of Europe
be encouraged to help in its sale. The sale of this book will
do much more than to aid in freeing our institutions from debt.
It will open the way for our larger books to find a ready market.
Thus the truth will reach many who otherwise would not receive
it.
I appeal especially to our brethren in
Scandinavia. Will you not take hold of the work which God has
given you? Will you not labor to the utmost of your ability to
relieve the embarrassed institutions in your field? Do not look
on in despair, saying: "We can do nothing." Cease to
talk discouragement. Take hold of the arm of Infinite Power.
Remember that your brethren in other lands are uniting to give
you help. Do not fail or be discouraged. The Lord will uphold
His workers in Scandinavia if they will act their part in faith,
in prayer, in hopefulness, doing
all they can to advance His cause and hasten His coming.
Let a most earnest effort be made by our
people in England to inspire their brethren in Scandinavia with
faith and courage. Brethren, we must come up to the help of the
Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Remember that the nearer we approach the
time of Christ's coming, the more earnestly and firmly we are
to work; for we are opposed by the whole synagogue of Satan.
We do not need feverish excitement, but that courage which is
born of genuine faith.