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Short Stories by Spicer
Be Ready

part of sermon delivered by Spicer at Battersea Town Hall, July 31, 1926

Last summer I was up in Nyassaland, in the heart of Africa There we find millions of heathen in darkness. The brethren there told us of a chief who came to the magistrate and said, "I want an Adventist school !" "All right," the magistrate said, "Go to the Adventist missionary " The chief went back to his village and the Roman Catholic priest was after him The priest took the man back to the niagistrate, and said, "He wants us, not the Adventists ; we will give him a school " "Webl," the magistrate said, "Who do you want?" And the chief said, "I think I will take the Adventist " After a while the priest said, "He will take us now " The magistrate asked the chief again whether he wanted the Adventist or not, and the chief said, "I think I will take the Adventist " "Well," said the magistrate, "do you understand that that means no more beer-that is what they will teach you-no more tobacco; they wil,l teach you that. Now, which do you want?" "Well," thc chief said, "I think I will1 take the Adventist " My friends, he was searching for the message of deliverance "Now," the magistrate said, "Do you know what you are calling for if you take the Adventist? That means no more drink." "Yes," the chief replied "No smoke." "Yes," said the chief "Now which will you take?" "I will take the Adventist " That man's heart was touched by the Spirit of God and he wanted deliverance for his people.

As I travel over the world, I find actually that this Iemnant church seems about the only one that has the full message of deliverance A Dutch Reform missionary, the wife of one of the officials of the Mission said to me, "We try to get our preachers and teachers to give up tobacco and the native beer, the curse of the village, but we cannot get them to do it. We try to make them promise, but we cannot get them to give it up How do you get on?" I said "They all give it up, not only the preachers and teachers but all the converts, they all give it up " She thought that was wonderful. It is the power of the living God ; it is the message of deliverance for the last days. God has given that message of deliverance to the remnant church. Brethren and sisters, may it deliver us from every evil way and then may we be true servants of the living God in carrying that message of deliverance to other souls. They are waiting for us in the darkness.

Just recently we have had word from one region of South America where, for fourteen years, the Indians have pushed back every other society They said, "No, we are waiting for the God-man to come " We sent a missionary in fifteen years ago and he died, but he taught them just a little. For fourteen years they called, and we were so slow. At last, in fact it was last summer, our workers got back in among those people. It was many days' journey Finally they reached the region of the Indians. The two workers were so weary that they decided they would sleep before (looking for anyone They had just hung up their hammocks in a deserted hut when along came an Indian. He went to them and said, "Are you the Davis missionary?" That was the name of the missiona~y who had died fifteen years ago "Yes," they said, "We are the Davis missionaries " Ancl that man of the wilds said, "1 want to be a good man " Is not that a welcome for a teacher of the message? Somehow, as God pours out His Spirit over the earth and touches hearts, men and women want a message of deliverance, not a philosophy, not an argument; they want a GOSpel that has power to deliver souls from sin. Brethren and sisters, God has given to us that message for the world; let us keep it bright in our hearts Jesus says to us, "Re ready " He does not say, get ready over yonder; He says, be ready now....

http://www.adventisthistory.org.uk/messenger/1926/1926-08-13.pdf