I'd like to ask you now to turn,
if you will, to the prophecy of Ezekiel.
There are just three verses that I would
like to read.
And I am reading from the third chapter
of Ezekiel, commencing at the seventeenth verse.
Now I'm going to change some of these
words because I want to bring this passage
right down to date.
I want to make it applicable to foremissionary
work, to world evangelism.
If you are following me, you will note
the words that I'm changing.
The seventeenth verse of the third chapter of
Ezekiel.
Christian worker, I have made thee a watchman.
Therefore hear the word of my mouth and
give warning from me.
When I say unto the heathen, thou shalt
surely die, and thou givest him not warning,
nor speakest his
blood will I requite.
Yet if thou warn the heathen, and he
turn not from thee, he shall die.
From time to time when we evangelize
in those islands, East
to West
people, then he
must be more interested in the islands of
Jabba than he is in my country.
Then he must be more, then
he must be more interested in, than
he is in India.
Because we're in
China, the
supreme task of it,
do you realize there is not one church?
You say, how do you know?
And if I see that most of it
has been sent out, yes,
but you have one, is
in very deed the most important in
that most.
They do not even send one dollar.
When they spend one dollar, they don't even
break even.
Many many years ago, I was able to
go to the treasury and ask two questions.
In a little while I got, during
these past years, to give well over for
missionary work.
We have tried to, his
world, he, will
not be needed.
The only reason we're needed, he
sat down to partake of his breakfast of
bacon and eggs, and he picked up the,
and he read about the mission.
It was a way back in the, and
we had only given, he
said that isn't true.
That's a false statement.
Dr. Smith's message continues on slide two of
this tape.
And having solved the problem to his complete
satisfaction, he wasn't satisfied.
He sat down that day and he wrote
me a personal letter.
The first letter I'd ever received from a
Roman Catholic priest in all my life.
He wanted to know all about it.
You know the method we follow.
It's a three-fold method.
A faith, individual, to participate.
Then God works.
In answer to prayer.
And does the impossible.
Year after year.
You say does it work in every church?
In the year 19, for
two weeks and three Sundays.
And that you hold next year.
And in the few.
I need to tell you that today was
offering.
My friends, I believe there will come a
day when countless millions from heathenism.
Look at you and at me as we
stand around the throne.
And pointing a finger of mercy at
thy hand.
Do you see now why I, a
veteran missionary from India.
He came home to Scotland to die.
He stood before the General Assembly's appeal.
Then again he spoke.
India, I
wonder if while I've been speaking tonight.
I wonder if there have been young men
and young women in this audience.
Who have been crying, I'll go.
I wonder if there have been older people.
The supreme is the evangelization of the world.