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that people good is favorable. But to accomplish, 
that good, sacrifices must be made, not only of 
money, but also of friends, health, and life it may 
be. Many must leave their native land and go 
among them. Persons of difterent vocations 
should go. The farmer and the mechanic, as well 
as the school-teacher and pi^eacher, if they be 
God-fearing persons, may do valuable service in 
the great work contemplated. If we are cruci- 
fied to the world, and the world to us,” if we are 
denying ourselves and following Christ, or if we 
are Christians^ we will be willing to go to Africa 
if the Lord so direct us. 
At least all ministers are willing to go who 
have entered the ministry with a clear understand- 
ing of the import of the commission Christ gave 
the apostles just before his ascent into heaven, 
which commission is just as binding on the pres- 
ent ministry as it was on the apostles. When the 
Savior said, Lo, I am with you alway, even to 
the end of the world,” he could not have meant 
that the apostles should live to the end of time, 
but he meant that after their decease others should 
be called to the ministry, and still others, and that 
to the end of the world there should be a Christ- 
attended ministry. Hence it is as much our duty 
to “ go and teach all nations, baptizing them in 
the name of the Bather, and of the Son, and of 
