Our speaker
for this session is Dr. Oswald J.
Smith.
Dr. Smith, worldwide traveler, is now the minister
of the People's Church, Toronto, Canada, which he
founded more than 30 years ago and which
today has a congregation of 4,200.
Dr. Smith is a missionary and has led
his church in a program that has brought
in over $4 million for missions, contributing toward
the support of 360 foreign missionaries.
The circulation of Dr. Smith's 25 books is
over the one million mark in 25 different
languages.
He has also written over 600 hymns and
poems.
The countries which Dr. Smith has toured number
66, including Great Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa, the
East and West Indies, Alaska, Mexico, the Solomon
Islands, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Central and South
America, the United States, and the Orient.
Many outstanding scholars and leaders in the Christian
world have collaborated with Campus Crusade for Christ
in the preparation of a series of recorded
lectures presenting what Christians believe.
This significant undertaking is designed to make the
claims of Christ and the great doctrines of
the Christian faith available to collegians of all
lands.
Today's lecture by Dr. Oswald J.
Smith is entitled, The Calling of God.
It is my pleasure to present Dr. Smith.
Years ago, I went through the Bible to
see if I could stay in Canada and
obey God.
Would it be possible, I asked myself, for
me to enjoy a comfortable pastorate, never cross
the boundaries of my country, and still carry
out the post-resurrection commands of my Lord
and satisfied God?
And as I studied the Bible, I found
such expressions as these.
All nations, all the world, every creature, every
kindred and tongue and people and nation, the
uttermost part of the earth.
In other words, the gospel I discovered was
to be given to the entire world.
Every nation, kindred, tongue and people must hear
it.
And if we neglect one nation, we have
not obeyed God's commands.
When I was 18 years of age, I
went to the Indians of British Columbia.
I lived in a little shack on an
Indian reserve all alone up near Alaska between
3,000 and 4,000 miles from home.
I stayed away for over a year.
Then realizing that I needed more education, I
returned at last to civilization and settled down
to a five-year course of theology, finally
graduating and being ordained to the gospel ministry.
I then applied to the Presbyterian Board of
Foreign Missions for work in India.
My case was carefully considered.
I appeared personally before the board, and at
last the decision was reached.
I was rejected.
The board felt that I would not be
suitable for missionary work, and so I was
turned down.
I then turned to work at home, became
pastor in Dale Presbyterian Church, Toronto, and later
the Alliance Tabernacle.
But I was not satisfied.
I knew that I had to do something.
I had seen the vision.
Finally, I struck out on my own, going
to the Russian mission fields of Europe and
preaching to vast multitudes all over Latvia, Estonia,
and Poland.
Finally, one day, after having preached till I
was worn out, I fainted dead away and
returned home.
All over the United States and Canada, I
traveled, holding evangelistic campaigns.
Finally, I felt the urge again, and this
time I went to Spain.
But again, I became ill and had to
come back.
Then I launched the People's Church in Toronto.
That was in the year 1930.
Two years later, the urge came upon me
once more, and I left for Africa.
By horseback, I penetrated back into the interior
in the company of Dr. Thomas Lambie, riding
some 30 miles a day, finally collapsing in
the long grass of Africa.
And after a serious illness that lasted for
six weeks, I was brought back once more
to civilization.
By this time, I was beginning to feel
that the board had been right after all,
and that I was not fitted for missionary
work.
However, I had seen the vision.
I knew that the other nations had to
hear the gospel.
And in 1938, I went once again, determined
to do my part, if at all possible,
to help evangelize the world.
This time, I left for the far Pacific.
And after traveling by steamer for 31 days,
I found myself preaching to the cannibals, the
savages, and the Christians of the Solomon Islands.
At length, however, I contracted malaria fever, which
lasted for three years, and again and again,
month after month, laid me low.
Finally, one day, Dr. Northcote Deck and the
other missionaries put me on a steamer and
sent me back to my work in Toronto.
I had tried to go, and had visited
all together some 66 countries, but I had
discovered that it would be most difficult for
me to live on the mission field.
In the early days of my ministry, realizing
that I could not go myself, I turned
to substitutes.
One day, I approached Reverend J.
H.
W.
Cook, the leader of the Evangelical Union of
South America.
You want to send out some new missionaries,
I asked.
Yes, he replied, we have five ready to
go.
Why don't you send them, I inquired.
We do not have the money, was his
reply.
If I can succeed in raising the funds
for their transportation, will you allow me to
support them, I asked him.
His face lit up as he responded in
the affirmative.
Never will I forget the day I placed
those five missionaries on the platform of the
People's Church and challenged the congregation to send
them out.
They did so.
Then the five became ten, the ten twenty,
the twenty forty, the forty one hundred, the
one hundred two hundred, the two hundred three
hundred and sixty.
Now we have an army of laborers serving
as our substitutes on some forty different foreign
fields, under thirty five faith missionary societies, and
we contribute toward their personal support.
But, I was not satisfied.
I am praying constantly, even now, and this
is my prayer.
Lord, let me live.
Let me live, if it be thy will,
until we have four hundred missionaries on the
foreign fields of earth.
I feel that that is the number the
People's Church should be helping to support.
And I will never be satisfied until we
have at least that many missionaries in the
regions beyond.
This is what I am living for.
I tried to go myself.
As a matter of fact, I went, but
each time it seemed that I had to
come back.
I knew then that there was only one
thing left for me to do, namely, to
send others.
That is why I travel all over the
United States of America, the Dominion of Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain.
I go in order to hold missionary conventions
and to challenge young people.
I must do all I can to find
and send substitutes.
But, you ask, why go before all that's
been saved here?
There is so much to be done at
home.
Why not complete the work of the homeland
before going to the foreign field?
Everywhere I go, that question is asked.
Let me answer it by asking three or
four others.
First, why did David Livingstone leave Scotland and
go to Africa before everyone in Scotland had
become a Christian?
Why?
There are still thousands in Scotland who have
not even yet decided for Christ.
And yet, years ago, Livingstone left his own
land and went to dark, benighted Africa.
I ask you, why?
Second, why did William Carey leave England and
go to India before everyone in England had
been Christianized?
Why?
There are still some in England who have
not been one to Christ.
Third, why did Judson leave America and go
to Burma before everyone in America had been
brought to Christ?
Why?
There are still a few in the States
who have not yet been Christianized.
Lastly, why did the Apostle Paul leave for
Europe before Palestine had heard the gospel?
Why?
Paul, you'll remember, deliberately turned from his own
country and went to our forefathers in Europe
in order to evangelize them.
Why, I ask, did he do it?
Ought he not to have stayed in Palestine
at least until they had heard the message?
My friends, there is only one answer, and
I give it in the words of the
Bible.
The field is the world.
The United States of America is not the
world.
Great Britain is not the world.
The field is the whole world.
You never in your life heard of a
farmer working in one little corner of his
field.
The farmer works the whole field.
The United States is but one corner.
Canada is but a little corner.
The world, the whole world, must be evangelized.
And since the field is the world, we
have no choice but to go to every
part of it.
The world is one, and it must be
done.
Not corner by corner, but as a whole.
The tobacco firms have their agents in the
most distant places.
Millions of cigarettes are given away to create
new appetites.
You mean to say that the reason for
it is because there is no longer any
demand at home?
Of course not.
Yet the tobacco firms are already sending their
missionaries into foreign lands.
They want new markets.
They are wiser than we are.
For that, after all, is God's plan.
And we would do well to emulate them.
It has never been God's will that we
should remain at home until the work here
is finished.
He wants us to go to the entire
world, to work the whole field, simultaneously.
Do you know what you are saying when
you say you do not believe in missions?
You are saying that Paul made a mistake.
That he should have left your forefathers in
Europe, pagans.
That it would have been better if he
had stayed at home in Palestine, so that
you might have remained in heathenism.
Is that what you think?
Are you sorry you are not still a
heathen?
You must be if you do not believe
in missions.
Do you remember when the Lord Jesus Christ
said the 5,000?
Do you recall how he had them sit
down row upon row on the green grass?
Then do you remember how he took the
loaves and fishes and blessed them and then
broke them and gave them to his disciples?
Do you remember how the disciples started at
one end of the front row and went
right along that front row, giving everyone a
helping?
Then do you recall how they turned right
around and started back along that front row
again, asking everyone to take a second helping?
Do you remember?
No.
A thousand times no.
Had they done that, those in the back
rows would have been rising up and protesting
most vigorously.
Here they would have been saying, Come back
here.
Give us a helping.
We have not had any yet.
We are starving.
It isn't right.
It isn't fair.
Why should those people in the front rows
have a second helping before we have had
a first?
And they would have been right.
We talk about the second coming of Christ.
They haven't heard about the first coming yet.
It just isn't fair.
Why should anyone hear the gospel twice before
everyone has heard it once?
You know as well as I do that
no one individual in the entire company of
5,000 men besides women and children got
a second helping until everyone had had a
first helping.
There was an absolutely equal distribution of the
food.
My friends, I have been with the back
rows.
I have seen the countless millions in those
back rows famishing for the bread of life.
Is it right?
Should we be concentrating on the front rows?
Ought we not rather to be training the
front rows to share what they have with
the back rows thus reach them with the
gospel, those for whom nothing has been prepared?
You will have to decide.
You will have to decide whether you are
going to spend your life feeding the front
rows or whether you are going to give
your life for the back rows, those who
are in dire need, those for whom nothing
has been prepared.
Dr. Alexander Duff, that great veteran missionary to
India, returned to Scotland to die and as
he stood before the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church he made his appeal.
But there was no response.
In the midst of his appeal he fainted
and was carried off the platform.
The doctor bent over him and examined his
heart.
Presently he opened his eyes.
Where am I?
he cried.
Where am I?
Lie still, said the physician.
Your heart is very weak.
What?
exclaimed the old warrior.
I must finish my appeal.
Take me back, take me back.
I haven't finished my appeal.
Lie still, said the doctor again.
You are too weak to go back.
You will go back at the peril of
your life.
But in spite of the protest of the
physician, the old white-haired warrior struggled to
his feet.
And with the doctor on one side and
the moderator on the other side, he again
mounted the steps of the Pope's platform.
And as he did so, the entire assembly
rose to do him honor.
Then he continued his appeal.
And this is what he said.
When Queen Victoria calls for volunteers for India,
hundreds of young men spring to the colors.
But when King Jesus calls, no one responds.
He paused.
There was silence.
Again he spoke.
Is it true, he said, that the fathers
and mothers of Scotland have no more sons
to give for India?
Again he paused.
Still there was silence.
Very well, he concluded.
If Scotland has no more young men to
send to India, then age it though I
am, I'll go back to India.
I can lie down on the banks of
the Ganges and I can die.
Thereby I can let the peoples of India
know that there's one man in Scotland who
loves them enough to give his life for
them.
In a moment, young men all over the
assembly sprang to their feet, crying out, I'll
go, I'll go, I'll go.
And after the old white-haired warrior had
been laid to rest, those young men, having
graduated, having been ordained to the ministry, became
his substitute in dark, benighted India.
My friend, had you been crying out while
I'd been speaking, I'll go, I'll go, what
are you going to do with that life
that God has given you?
There are only one of two things that
you can do.
You can either waste it, or you can
invest it.
You can do what millions of other young
people are doing.
You can grow up, get your education, get
married, have children, go to work, live your
life, die.
That'll be all there'll be to it.
Or, you can invest that life of yours.
You can invest it for the Lord Jesus
Christ.
You can make it count for God.
You know that there are 2,000 tribes
that have never yet heard the gospel of
Jesus Christ?
In New Guinea alone, there are some 521
tribes.
In the South Pacific Islands, there are some
500 tribes.
In Africa, there are 350.
In South America, there are 300.
There are 2,000 tribes throughout this world
of ours still waiting for the messengers of
God's salvation.
You can have a whole tribe to yourself.
And you say, but Dr. Smith, I'm heading
toward a great position here in America.
Yes, my friend, and there are hundreds of
others who would be glad to get that
same position.
But out there in the darkness of heathenism,
you can have the position all to yourself.
You can have all the room you want.
No one will be cutting on your toes.
You can labor there for the Lord Jesus
Christ, and then the reward that God has
promised will be awaiting you.
There will be those who will rise up
to call you blessed.
You will have invested your life, and your
life will count for God.
But you must make the decision.
What are you going to do with your
life?
The master tells his servants that he is
leaving, but that he will be returning.
While he is gone, they are to bring
the entire state under cultivation.
They begin working around the house.
They beautify the gardens and flower beds.
Next year, the weeds grow, and again they
go to work, keeping the lawns in perfect
condition.
Presently, one of them remembers his master's orders.
I must go, he explains.
Our master told us to bring the entire
estate under cultivation, and he prepares to leave.
But they cry, we cannot spare you.
See how fast the weeds grow.
We need you here.
In spite of their protests, however, he leaves
and begins working in a far corner of
the estate.
Later on, two others remember their lord's orders,
and in spite of objections, they too go
and cultivate another part of the estate.
At last, their master returns.
He is pleased as he looks at the
flower beds and gardens and the lawns around
his house.
But before rewarding his servants, he decides to
explore the rest of the estate, and as
he does so, his heart sinks, for he
sees nothing but wilderness and marsh, and he
realizes that there has not even been an
attempt made to cultivate it.
Finally, he comes to the one man working
all by himself in a distant part of
the estate, and he rewards him richly.
He discovers the two in still another part,
and again rewards them.
Then he returns to headquarters where his servants
are waiting, expecting a reward, but his face
indicates displeasure.
Have we not been faithful, they explain.
Look at these flower beds and gardens.
Look at these lawns.
Are they not beautiful?
And have we not worked hard?
Yes, he replies.
You have done your best.
You have been faithful.
You have labored diligently.
Well, then, they cry.
Why are you disappointed?
Are we not entitled to a reward?
There is one thing you have forgotten, he
replies.
You have forgotten my orders.
I did not tell you to work the
same gardens and lawns again and again, year
after year.
I told you to bring the entire estate
under cultivation, to cultivate it at least once.
That you did not do.
In fact, you did not even attempt to
cultivate it.
And when your companions insisted upon going and
doing their part, you objected.
No, there is no reward.
Many a one, I am afraid, is going
to be disappointed.
You may be that one.
You may have won many souls in your
town.
You may have been most faithful to your
church.
But what have you done for those in
heathen darkness?
Did you ever think of going yourself?
Have you ever given your money that someone
else might go?
Have you prayed?
What part have you had in the evangelization
of the world?
Have you obeyed orders?
Have you done what you could to bring
the entire estate under cultivation?
Or have you been satisfied to work in
your own community and let the rest of
the world perish?
If you want to hear him say, Well
done, good and faithful servant.
Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.
And if you want to receive the promised
reward, the diadem or the crown, you had
better get busy and do what you can
to publish his gospel among all nations.
Or you will be a missing Christian in
the day of reward.
If this missionary message has challenged you to
dedicate your life to full-time service for
God on the mission fields of the world,
may I invite you to discuss this very
important matter with the one who has invited
you to listen to this lecture.
For additional information and literature on foreign missions
and on living the Christian life, write Campus
Crusade for Christ.
A study plan in booklet form entitled Ten
Basic Steps to Christian Maturity is available to
you.
The address is on the record jacket.
...quota. 125 believers showed up.
On another occasion, each man was asked to
contribute one pesa toward a new typewriter for
the local municipal office.
When this was announced during the service, those
who had money with them filed up to
the front and deposited their pesa with the
church treasurer, who duly noted each name after
which the service continued as usual.
When inquiry was made as to why they
did this during the church service, the reply
was simply, God has ordered us to obey
our local officials.
We do this as part of our worship
and obedience to God.
Such scriptural conduct could not help but have
a terrific impact on that entire community, including
non-Christians and tribal authorities.
So it has always been where the word
of God has been translated into the language,
then translated into life.
It has made Christians worthy, progressive citizens of
their own country, gaining favor both with God
and with men.
An educator sent by his government to direct
the school for the training of teachers chosen
from the jungle tribes of Amazonia was greatly
impressed by the eagerness of the Indians to
learn.
Having worked with other tribespeople elsewhere in similar
government programs, but with quite a different response,
he was outspoken in his amazement.
These Indians of the jungle are simply made
of different human stuff than those I've worked
with before, he said.
When someone tried gently to point out that
it was the fruit of the gospel and
their faith in Jesus Christ which had brought
about the change, he brushed the idea aside.
He didn't believe a word of it.
He'd worked with Indians all his life.
He could tell that these were simply different
by nature.
Not long after, his own wife, a high
society lady, put her trust in Jesus Christ
and began to study the Bible.
Several months later, the educator apologized to the
missionary for poohooing his suggestion that the gospel
had made the difference in the Indians in
the school.
I didn't believe a word of it then,
he said, but when I saw what a
difference faith in Christ made in my wife
and in our home, now I see what
you mean.
You were right.
This does account for the difference in outlook.
Thereafter, he requested that as many as possible
of the government-trained teachers should be Christian.
For, said he, they stimulate the others to
learn and to live better.
Convincing demonstrable evidence such as this has opened
government doors in many areas to a combined
scientific research and Bible translation program to reach
Bible-less tribes with the word of God.
The word of God, sharper than any two
-edged sword, converting the soul, directing men into
lives of righteousness, is God's own provision to
dispel ignorance and darkness, undermine the rule of
vice and superstition, and bring men out into
the glorious light and liberty of the gospel
and godly living.
It is possible for young men and women
today to serve governments and their peoples in
practical ways obvious to them by carrying on
a most effective missionary work with the written
word of God, translated and placed in the
hands of literate tribesmen.
Granted the importance of translating the scriptures, what
training is necessary for those whom God would
use in this task?
A good working knowledge of the scriptures themselves
is a must, and, if possible, a knowledge
of the original languages.
Those not trained in Hebrew and Greek are
not eliminated, however, from making a very worthwhile
contribution to getting a translation done.
Many excellent commentaries and versions, prepared by highly
competent men, are available for those who do
not know the original languages and, incidentally, constantly
used by those who do.
Experienced translation consultants who know the original language
are available to aid the translator and check
the quality of his translation while still in
process on the field.
Many translations are the production of teams of
workers reflecting, when completed, therefore, the total background
of all.
A translation involves two languages.
There must be adequate control of the language
into which the translation is being made.
Courses in linguistics are important.
They are designed not only to help the
missionary learn to speak well, but also to
train him to analyze the sound system, prepare
an alphabet, describe the grammar, including the finer
nuances of meaning so important in translation of
the scriptures, and use with discrimination the vocabulary.
Such courses are now offered at several universities
and colleges and at the three annual eleven
-week Summer Institutes of Linguistics sponsored by the
Wycliffe Bible Translators.
The task of giving the Bible to the
remaining tribes involves many other tasks besides that
of actually translating.
Many of these tribes live in remote areas.
Qualified pilots, mechanics, and radio men are needed
to make possible surveys to find the tribes,
as well as service in emergency flights to
keep the translator working efficiently at his post.
Bases central to the tribal areas and beyond
all civilized commercial services require doctors, nurses, printers,
agriculturalists, builders, maintenance men, administrators, shippers,
stenographers, and teachers for children whose parents are
translating the scriptures and teaching the tribe's people.
The fact that your field of special studies
has not been planned with this in mind
need not deter you.
A university training is not merely the accumulation
of facts in one particular discipline.
It should also be the disciplining of your
mind to grapple with new problems in other
fields.
This is precisely what is needed for pioneer
missionary Bible translation.
Present yourself, the product of your training, unreservedly
to God for his service.
Let him decide your best usefulness.
Let him say whether he plans to use
you in the field of your training or
in some other, which for his purposes he
considers more important for you.
Any analysis of what graduates do will show
that a considerable number, and often those who
make a real mark in life, not just
the failures, switch fields of endeavor after graduation.
Given interest and vision, graduates can and have
made the transfer from mathematics, physics, medicine, modern
languages, history, Greek, agriculture, and many other fields
with equal and surprising ease to pioneer translation
of the scriptures.
All Wycliffe Bible translator personnel receive three months
training in jungle living and survival before proceeding
to their assigned field.
If God is challenging you to do something
positive with your life, the tribes may have
his word.
The facilities, both at home and on the
field, are available to train you for the
task.
Three months linguistic training, working with actual languages,
and three months living under jungle conditions will
be far more convincing proof that God can
use you to give his word to a
tribe than years of armchair appraisal of your
own abilities to do the job.
To date, 1,151 languages have received some
portion of the word of God.
Of these, only 219 have the whole Bible.
Bible translation activity has steadily increased through the
centuries.
Recently, some portion of the scriptures was being
published in a new language on an average
of every three weeks.
At this rate, it would take over 150
years for the 2,000 tribes to receive
their first portion.
But it need not take that long.
A task force of 8,000 young men
and women is needed.
Using present facilities, this many can be trained
in linguistics in the next 15 years.
A trained worker in a program giving priority
to the translation of the Bible, 15 years
after beginning the study of an unwritten language
can have the New Testament, or a sizable
part of it, translated and printed.
Usually by the time it is ready, there
is a growing constituency of readers and believers.
The fruit of the translator's personal evangelism and
discipling, waiting for the book.
This means that this minimum job can be
done in the next 30 years.
This generation, those of you in the sound
of my voice at this very moment, can
do it.
If it can be done, it ought to
be done.
If it is not completed, it will be
our failure, and we will answer to God
for it.
What does God want you to do for
the next 20 or 30 years of your
life?
I can't tell you what He wants you
to do.
He can, and He will.
As a responsible Christian, you must ask yourself
the question, what part has God planned for
me in the proclamation of the gospel to
every creature?
If He wants you to translate, or do
any one of the many other tasks involved,
He will provide the training and the ability
as you need it.
Go to Him in all sincerity of heart
with the words of David's mighty man upon
your lips.
Thy servant is ready to do whatsoever my
Lord the King shall appoint.
Your Lord, the Lord of the harvest, will
tell you what He wants you to do,
where He wants you to do it, and
when.
He has good works, which He has before
ordained that you should walk in them.
God bless you as you seek His faith
and do His will.
If this missionary message has challenged you to
dedicate your life to full-time service for
God on the mission fields of the world,
may I invite you to discuss this very
important matter with the one who has invited
you to listen to this lecture.
For additional information and literature on foreign missions
and on living the Christian life, write Campus
Crusade for Christ.
A study plan and booklet form entitled Ten
Basic Steps to Christian Maturity is available to
you.
The address is on the record jacket.
Your field of special studies has not been
planned with this in mind, and this training
need not deter you.
A university training is not merely the accumulation
of facts in one particular discipline.
It should also be the disciplining of your
mind to grapple with new problems in other
fields.
This is precisely what is needed for pioneer
missionary Bible translation.
Present yourself, the product of your training, unreservedly
to God for His service.
Let Him decide your best usefulness.
Let Him say whether He plans to use
you in the field of your training or
in some other, which for His purposes He
considers more important for you.
Any analysis of what graduates do will show
that a considerable number, and often those who
make a real mark in life, not just
the failures, switch fields of endeavor after graduation.
Given interest and vision, graduates can and have
made the transfer from mathematics, physics, medicine, modern
languages, history, Greek, agriculture, and many other fields
with equal and surprising ease to pioneer translation
of the scriptures.
All Wycliffe Bible translator personnel receive three months
training in jungle living and survival before proceeding
to their assigned field.
If God is challenging you to do something
positive with your life, the tribes may have
His word.
The facilities, both at home and on the
field, are available to train you for the
task.
Three months linguistic training, working with actual languages,
and three months living under jungle conditions will
be far more convincing proof that God can
use you to give His word to a
tribe than years of armchair appraisal of your
own abilities to do the job.
To date, 1,151 languages have received some
portion of the word of God.
Of these, only 219 have the whole Bible.
Bible translation activity has steadily increased through the
centuries.
Recently, some portion of the scriptures was being
published in a new language on an average
of every three weeks.
At this rate, it would take over 150
years for the 2,000 tribes to receive
their first portion.
But it need not take that long.
A task force of 8,000 young men
and women is needed.
Using present facilities, this many can be trained
in linguistics in the next 15 years.
A trained worker in a program giving priority
to the translation of the Bible, 15 years
after beginning the study of an unwritten language
can have the New Testament, or a sizable
part of it, translated and printed.
Usually by the time it is ready, there
is a growing constituency of readers and believers,
the fruit of the translator's personal evangelism and
discipling, waiting for the book.
This means that this minimum job can be
done in the next 30 years.
This generation, those of you in the sound
of my voice at this very moment, can
do it.
If it can be done, it ought to
be done.
If it is not completed, it will be
our failure, and we will answer to God
for it.
What does God want you to do for
the next 20 or 30 years of your
life?
I can't tell you what he wants you
to do.
He can, and he will.
As a responsible Christian, you must ask yourself
the question, what part has God planned for
me in the proclamation of the gospel to
every creature?
If he wants you to translate, or do
any one of the many other tasks involved,
he will provide the training and the ability
as you need it.
Go to him in all sincerity of heart
with the words of David's mighty man upon
your lips.
Thy servant is ready to do whatsoever my
Lord the King shall appoint.
Your Lord, the Lord of the harvest, will
tell you what he wants you to do,
where he wants you to do it, and
when.
He has good works, which he has before
ordained that you should walk in them.
God bless you as you seek his faith
and do his will.
If this missionary message has challenged you to
dedicate your life to full-time service for
God on the mission fields of the world,
may I invite you to discuss this very
important matter with the one who has invited
you to listen to this lecture.
For additional information and literature on foreign missions
and on living the Christian life, write Campus
Crusade for Christ.
A study plan in booklet form entitled Ten
Basic Steps to Christian Maturity is available to
you.
The address is on the record jacket.