The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-08-10
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nation to me, the responsibility OF tht
giver ceases after it passes into my
hands, and that l alone am response
BILE to God for the judicious use of it
The people make their offerings liber
ally, because God graciouSly blesSes
them. These bretheren write thai
the rumor is being circulated that
am, not supporting anybody to help
me preach the Gospel, which fact
only stated, at all, for the purpose OF
asking the people tc pray with me fol
those who are helping me.
STRAIGHT BETwIxT TWO.
When the Lord first enabled me tC
support five workers, l was so thank,
full to him that l made public state
ment of the number, and | was severe
ly criticised for parading what l was
doing before the public eye. With
earnest prayer, L resolved henceforth
not to subject myself or my work to
that criticism; and now am asked to
give the names and addresses Of all nay
workers. because somebody has clrcu-
lated the rumor that | am not sup
porting anybody.
MY BOOKS.
show every dollar that | receive from
every source, and also show where
every dollar goes | am doing this
for many obvious reasons. | think
every good Christian man who psopos-
cS to deal honestly with God ought ito
do this very thing.
NAMES OF MY MISSIONARIES.
The difficulty of giving the names
of those who help me preach the
Word of Christi am supporting twelve
in Africa, besides some in Japan and
Korea, who are helping me to tell the
the story of Jesus and his dying love;
and l do not know the names OF all
these myself. | simply give the
70 supply the means to preach
Christ, and leave the management or
the matter to persons who are in posi-
tionS to attend to it.
WATCHING SATAN.
Where persons give money 9eSigna-
ted to be used in supporting mission
aries, do not collect the money on
that check, but endorse it payable to
workers themselves, or to some one in
charge of that worker, so that not
one dollar of that money passes through
my hand at all. This also saves
me much trouble in bookkeeping.
AKIND SUGGESTION.
| would like to suggest, very respectful
" to those who criticiSe me, that if they
would get busy as am in helping TO
win lost souls to the Lord, they would
have less time FOR doing things that
and hinder others, and
their own precious lives would be a
much greater blessing in the world.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
One brother exhorts me not to al
low the people to make sucn liberal
free-wiil offerings to me. saying that
it is wrong for me to accept it,
Dear reader, if by putting IN your
very life blood, you could be such a
to a community that they
would gladly make a free-will offering
to you, would you accept it? / refer
all readers TO the committees where l
have been as to the freedom and cheer
fulness with which these gifts are
made.
WHY is IT?
Years ago when the Lord was grac-
iously blessing my work, and thOuS-
andS were being saved, l was CRITICS.
ed from many sources, but during
the three long years when l was fore
ed into silence, not word OF criticism
conld l hear, but just as soon as
was able to be in the work again those
who were not busy winning souls, got
busy criticising me again.
HOW is 1T, CRITICS ARE HELPERS
Snme people think, if they criticise
a person who is doing something, that
they are helpers in The work though
they do nothing themselves. l want
every reader of these lines to join me
in earnest prayer. that all of these
rumors may but tend to drive me clos
er to the Lord. 1t is wonder the
War Department does not name some
battleship Rumor," f,r she surely
would float.
OVER SEVEN THOUSAND SOUL SAVED
in the LAST FOUR MONTHS.
have witnessed a glad and glorious
surrender for. salvation and service Of
over Seven thousand precious souls and
would rather to be used of God in
such gracious way, than to even be
gifted with wisdom enough to criticise
other workers.
want to extend my thanks to, and
ask the good will of every reader OF
these lines for the papers which are
kind enough to give in full these earn
est words.
Prayerfully and sincerely,
G. G. Gates.
Jackson, Miss, July 6, 1907.