You know that
you are bound to do all the good to others which you can; and even if
you do not love the Saviour, you are not released from your obligations
to do good. I would by no means have you become ministers without giving
your hearts to Christ; but this you are as much bound to do, as you are
bound to do all the good you can to others. If you are not Christians, I
want you, through grace, to become such, and I want many of you to
become ministers and missionaries. Two of my sons are now missionaries
in India, and four others, I hope, are preparing to come. And why should
not you also come here, or go to other heathen lands? If you can be
excused from coming or going, why may not all who are now little boys
also be excused? In such a case, there will be no missionaries at all.
And you know that this would be very wrong. But I do not merely want
many of you, my dear boys, to become missionaries, I want many of you,
my dear girls, to become missionaries also. Many little girls and boys
have expressed a desire to become missionaries. Several little boys who
wrote to Mr. Hutchings, one of my missionary brethren, and several
little boys and girls who have written to me, have said that they would
like to be missionaries.
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