WHEN the Great War was over, and there was no need of our continued efforts to send Testaments to tilt soldiers and the sailors, Dr. Wreford felt that God’s Work, must go on, and wrote an article in which he said, “... We have signed no Armistice with the devil. We are still at open war with this great enemy of mankind.... He is the foe of God and man—he hates the Lord Jesus, and he hates the book that speaks of Him.... Earth’s Christless millions need His Word, and they must have it. We must still continue to sow the good seed of the Word all over the world...,” And, dear friends, from all parts of the world have come requests to us for the Word of God which it has been our joy and privilege to send until this day—some of our Testaments often going into parts of the world where no missionary has ever been.
In the pages of “In His Harvest Fields” we have given you every month the story of our work, and the growth of our work. And when we think of the wonderful blessing God has given us, it seems hard indeed to give this blessed service up; and we feel, all the more deeply, at this solemn crisis in our work, what we have lost by the departure of this faithful servant of the living God. None can tell the sorrow of our hearts.
So many of our friends have made anxious inquiries as to the future of our work, and almost without exception have expressed the hope that the work will be continued. We hope so, too, if it is God’s will. Our earnest prayer at the Depot is, “Lord, what wilt Thou have us to do?” And we beg the prayers of all our Christian friends that we may know the will of God, and do it. Shall the work cease? Or shall the work continue? “Lord, what wilt Thou have us to do?” Meanwhile, we shall continue as long as our friends help us, and God will see to it that they do, we are sure, if the work is to be permanently continued. So, dear friends, will you, above all, give us your prayers, and sympathy, and help. We ask it for Christ’s sake.