The bugles of God sound the advance! Faith knows nothing of retreat! The Lord of hosts is with us. The devil is a defeated foe. The bitter cry of the unsaved millions, “Come over … and help us” (Acts16:9), is only less powerful than the thrilling command of the Lord Jesus Christ, ” … Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16: 15). Unreached tribes, unevangelized areas, closed lands – we face them boldly in the power of the Spirit, and with faith, prayer, love, and sacrifice. Lift up the banner of the cross! On…on…for the Lord hath delivered them into our hands!
LOOK ON THE FIELDS!
Millions benighted in superstition-ridden Confucianism and demon-haunted Taoism; millions steeped in the groveling idolatry of Hinduism; millions crowding the sorrowful temples of Buddha; millions in the ugly grip of sensual, degrading, fanatical Mohammedanism.
Millions debased themselves in the shrines of Shintoism; millions groping in the fear-haunted darkness of animism and fetishism; millions shadowed beneath the sinister cloak of false, apostate Rome; millions of Jews rejecting Him, Who is the glory of God’s people Israel; and millions without number, nurtured, trained, lost and perishing in the cold, insubstantial, futile atmosphere of dialectical materialism, political delusion, and Christ-crucifying secularism – a mighty host marching to the grave without Christ!
IS IT NOTHING TO YOU?
A gigantic task! True, but we have a mighty God, a mighty Gospel, a mighty power! Mighty and Almighty! ” … greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world” (1 John4:4). The Lamb of God is still on the throne!
We do not believe in the so-called “Christianizing” of mankind. We deny the inevitability of progress. We have no faith in social reform to meet the heart-need, nor in humanism to elevate character, nor in education to usher in a new world order. We abominate futile, discredited, apostate modernism. For one thing and one thing only do we stand: world evangelization. Ours the high calling to tell out the good news of salvation through the blood o God’s Son, Jesus, wherever the foot of man has trod!
“The best tonic I know,” wrote that veteran warrior, C. T. Studd, “is to remember we are in for the final great fight, the evangelization of the unevangelized. It is God’s will, and He will not fail! The best cure for discouragement and qualms is another daring plunge of faith!”
Our God honours faith, answers prayer, and works wonders!
Onward with God for evangelization! He will not fail!
Each believer is bound by his own voluntary profession as well as by the command of the ascended Lord – to act with as much earnestness and energy in giving forth the Gospel as if none but himself were summoned to the service, as if none but himself were chargeable with the world’s continued darkness. The evangelization of the world must be the one great object to which life, labour, and means are consecrated!
If we are to witness yet greater triumphs of the cross, there must be a deeper yieldedness to Christ, a daily walk with Him, a constant seeking His will, a definite expression of Calvary love and holiness, in obedience, self-denial, and prayer, and a real launching out in faith in the power and wisdom of God-for the accomplishment of His will. So shall we be strong and do exploits.