Will you not resolve now, that you will, so long as God prospers
you in worldly goods, give _at least_ one-tenth of all you earn to the
Lord? Do, my dear children, do make the resolution now.
CHAPTER XXII.
PERSONAL LABORS AMONG THE HEATHEN.
My dear children--You have, perhaps, often seen Campbell's missionary
map of the world. If not, I want you very carefully to look at it. I
want you to look at the red spots on it, and think how many millions of
people embrace the religion both of the Greek and Roman Catholic
churches--a religion which is nothing more nor less than paganism, with
a few Christian doctrines added to it. After this, I want you to look at
the green spots, and think of the hundred and twenty millions of
Mohammedans, who spurn the name of Jesus as a Saviour, and who have set
up Mahomet as their prophet. I want you also to look at all the dark
spots, where, with comparatively a few exceptions, the people are in
pagan darkness, without any knowledge of God and the only Saviour of
sinners Jesus Christ. And in view of all this darkness--in view of the
need of more than half a million of ministers of the Gospel to preach
the news of salvation to them, I want you, my dear boys, to ask
yourselves whether it may not be your duty, after you grow up, to
become ministers, and go and preach the Gospel to them.
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