“‘Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature,’ is Christ’s command to His followers… To all, great or small, learned or ignorant, old or young, the command is given. In view of this command, can we educate our sons and daughters for a life of respectable conventionality, a life professedly Christian, but lacking His self-sacrifice, a life on which the verdict of Him who is truth must be, ‘I know you not’?
“Thousands are doing this. They think to secure for their children the benefits of the gospel, while they deny its Spirit. But this cannot be. Those who reject the privilege of fellowship with Christ in service, reject the only training that imparts a fitness for participation with Him in His glory. They reject the training that in this life gives strength and nobility of character. Many a father and mother, denying their children to the cross of Christ, have learned too late that they were thus giving them over to the enemy of God and man . . .
“Success in any line demands a definite aim. He who would achieve true success in life must choose and keep steadily in view the aim worthy of his endeavor. Such an aim is set before the youth of today. The Heaven-appointed purpose of giving the gospel to the world in this generation is the noblest that can appeal to any human being. It opens a field of effort to every one whose heart Christ has touched.
“With such preparation as they can gain, thousands upon thousands of the youth and those older in years should be giving themselves to this work. Already many hearts are responding to the call of the Master Worker; and their numbers will increase… All who engage in ministry are God’s helping-hand. They are co-workers with the angels; rather, they are the human agencies through whom the angels accomplish their mission. And the human workers, co-operating with heavenly agencies, have the benefit of their education and experience. As a means of education, what university course can equal this? . . .
“With such an army of workers as our youth, rightly trained, might furnish, how soon the message of a crucified, risen, and soon-coming Saviour might be carried to the whole world! How soon might the end come, the end of suffering and sorrow and sin. How soon, in place of a possession here, with its blight of sin and pain, our children might receive their inheritance where ‘there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away.’ (Revelation 21:4)” {GCB, July 1, 1902}.
The noblest of all labors—giving the gospel to the world in this generation—awaits your response. What will it be? Respectable conventionality, or valiant warfare with angels working by your side?
