Payson said when dying: “I long to hand a cup full of blessing to every human being.” When heaven enters a man’s heart, there is no room for littleness, but the grandest hopes of limitless grace reign there.
We can and do say: We long to help to put the Word of God into the hand of every human being.
A late premier of France said: “The League of Nations would do far more for the world than ever the Bible did.” “We know,” says a writer in the “Watchman and Examiner,” “the Word of God abideth forever, but the faith of men in God’s Word may be destroyed, and is being destroyed every day. Every effort to stamp the Bible out of existence has but speeded it on its way.”
In Russia, we are told, it is touching to see the joy of a poor soul when he or she is presented with a New Testament. He will kiss one’s hands, then kiss the Book, and will read, and re-read it, each word apparently sinking into, good ground. Russia is an enormous mission field that is white unto harvest.
And so is England, and so is all the world. It almost breaks one’s heart to think of the awful need.