The mission spirit has now gained such momentum and rapidity, that we can now go through a revolution, changing public sentiment from selfishness to benevolence, in twenty-five or thirty years. We know that the influence of Calvary can never die.
I may die in the wilderness, and you may die on the sea; but the road to heaven is as short from India as it is from Indiana, and when once in heaven we shall see a much better sight than Moses saw from the top of Pisgah, and everyone may gaze on it who has done one jot or one tittle to advance the work.
Whisper it then into the ears of your children, that “the field is the world!” Ye who are bringing up your own flesh and blood to delight in dress, in worldly aggrandizement, in wealth, in ambition, in honor, have you not seen what the Lord is doing? Have you not seen that his service is becoming the path to honor? That working for the world is the shortest road to promotion in our day? Teach your children to give up their soul and body and strength to their Master’s service. Thus shall they be nearer to God, and God to them. We must not live for ourselves, but for others.—BEECHER.