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The Lord’s recovery has spread to every continent over the earth, but the increase and spread have been rather slow. In 1949, before I came to Taiwan, there were only two churches on the island of Taiwan — the church in Taipei and the church in Kaohsiung. In May of 1949 I was sent by the Lord to Taiwan. In addition to the churches in mainland China, there were about fifty churches in other places, mainly in Southeast Asia. There was a church in Hong Kong, and the rest were mainly on the Malay Peninsula and in Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines. There were no churches in Burma [Myanmar] and India. In Ceylon, southwest of India, there was a group of people who were related to some saints in Penang, Malaysia, but their meeting could not be regarded as a proper church.
On the Malay Peninsula, there were about ten churches from Penang through Sitiawan and down to Singapore and a total of five to six churches in the region of Sibu, Sarawak. The major church in Thailand was in Bangkok, and there were seven to eight churches in the south. There were about ten churches in Indonesia, the majority of the saints being in Surabaya, Jakarta, and Bandung. In the Philippines there were two relatively big churches — the church in Manila on the northern island and the church in Cebu City in the central part — and there were some small churches in the surrounding areas. In total, there were no more than ten churches in the whole country. Hence, in these countries plus Taiwan and Hong Kong, there were at most fifty churches outside of mainland China.
In 1950 there were not any churches in Mindanao, the southern island of the Philippines. When I visited Manila at the end of 1950, a brother from Mindanao attended a conference. He received help and was revived. When he went back, he translated Crucial Truths in the Holy Scriptures into Visayan, a dialect of the southern Philippines, and he used the book to preach the gospel, edify believers, and build up the churches. Now there are approximately one hundred and ten churches, with an average of one hundred saints in each locality. In this place the ministry publication work has proved to be remarkably effective.
Later, the Lord’s recovery spread to Japan through Brother Yu Tan-liu and a second brother. This second brother even brought an American brother with a Brethren background to a conference in Hong Kong in 1954. At that time we thought that the second brother was very good. Surprisingly, however, when he met a Catholic priest in Japan, he was led away to Catholicism. This was a shame to the Lord’s recovery and a big loss. The young co-workers must learn to be faithful in serving the Lord; otherwise, they will not be dependable. Despite this loss, Brother Yu still raised up the testimony of the Lord’s recovery in Tokyo.
The Lord’s recovery then spread to the United States. When I came to the United States for the first time in 1958, saints in the Lord’s recovery could be found in only a few places. Moreover, only the church in New York had some Caucasians; nearly all the rest of the churches had only Chinese saints. This is the reason that I released messages in Chinese when I first went to San Francisco in 1958 to hold a conference there. At that time I just passed through and observed a little before returning to Taiwan. In 1960 I went to the United States a second time, and in 1961 I went a third time and stayed for a period of time because of some circumstances. In October 1962 I was in Seattle. My original plan was to go back to Taipei to have a conference in November. However, the Lord told me clearly to not return to Taipei but to receive a burden to bring the Lord’s recovery to the United States. Consequently, I sent a telegram to the brothers in Taipei notifying them of my change of plan and asking them to cancel the conference. I also made a long-distance call to Brother Samuel Chang, who lived in Los Angeles. I told him that after visiting San Francisco, I would go to Los Angeles to stay for a long time. Brother Chang responded joyfully. Soon after, I went to Los Angeles to settle down and bring the Lord’s recovery to the United States.
Since the Lord’s recovery has come to the English-speaking world, it has spread quickly in the United States, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Central and South America. In recent years it has spread rapidly in the southeast of the United States, from Texas, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, all the way to Washington, D.C. Ten to fifteen churches have been added. Currently, there are about ninety churches in the United States and fifteen in Canada.
In South and Central America there are more than one hundred churches; the majority are in Brazil, which has about fifty churches. There are about twenty churches in Mexico and fifteen churches in various Central American countries. In Guatemala alone there are six churches. Of the Spanish-speaking countries in South America, there are fifteen churches in Argentina, ten in Paraguay, three to five in Chile, and two to three in Bolivia. Some churches are being raised up in Colombia. Thus, there are about eighty-five churches in South America and about thirty-five in Mexico and Central America; the sum total is around one hundred and twenty. Thus, in the Western Hemisphere there is a total of about two hundred and twenty-five churches.
In Asia, there are presently one hundred and thirty-two churches in the Philippines, seventeen in Indonesia, thirty in Malaysia, fifteen in Thailand, and one in Singapore. Therefore, there are close to two hundred churches in these Southeast Asian countries. There are twenty churches in Japan, forty-three in Korea, eighty in Taiwan, and one in Hong Kong. So there are about three hundred and forty churches in Asia.
There is also a spread in Europe. There are about forty churches in total; they are mainly in England. In Africa there are about fifteen churches in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, and Liberia. After the Lord’s work started in Taiwan in 1949, the Lord’s recovery began to spread to different places in East Asia. After coming to the English-speaking world in 1962, the Lord’s recovery has spread to five continents. Churches have even been raised up in Australia and New Zealand. There are over six hundred churches on the earth today. In the past thirty-five years the Lord has raised up five hundred and fifty churches.
However, after spreading to this extent, the churches in the Lord’s recovery have come to a standstill. As soon as the number of people grows, the increase comes to a halt. It is regrettable that we still have not found the reason for this in our study over the past thirty-five years. Let us consider Taiwan. For the past two to three years we have not seen much increase or spread in the Lord’s recovery on the island of Taiwan. In 1958 the church in Taipei had more than twenty-two thousand information cards. Based on this, we estimate that at least eighteen to twenty thousand saints were in the church in 1956, with about three thousand meeting regularly. In 1984, twenty-eight years later, the number of those who meet regularly is still three thousand, but we have information cards for only eleven thousand saints, less than half the number in 1958. Taipei was a small city between the years of 1956 and 1958; it did not include the Muzha, Shilin, or Beitou Districts. The number in attendance in our meetings today is less than it was thirty years ago, even though Taipei is now a metropolitan city. This is a strong proof that once a certain number is reached, a breakthrough in the increase of the number of people becomes difficult. This situation has been manifested the most in Taiwan.
This condition does not apply only to the church in Taipei; nearly every local church is in the same situation. We need to avoid polite words and not play politics when speaking about our situation. When we speak according to the facts and analyze the numbers, no church has an excuse. Our situation should be considered like a company’s account. When we compare our initial “investment” with our current “assets,” we will realize that we have not made a profit. For the past twenty-eight years, as we have been conducting the Lord’s “business,” we have registered a loss rather than a gain. How can we explain this to the Lord?
In our research we have found some scientific data showing that we had an increase in the beginning but that we came to a standstill once the numbers grew. In the Lord’s recovery the churches in Taiwan are always in a leading position. However, the churches in Taiwan are at standstill; this causes us much concern. Today the largest local church in the Lord’s recovery is the church in Taipei. Therefore, everything related to the church in Taipei can become a model. The church in Taipei must have a breakthrough so that it can drive the Lord’s recovery forward. However, we cannot have a breakthrough merely by talking; we must take action.
If we have an annual increase of twenty percent, the number of people will double every four years. This kind of planning should be made with the view to doing business. If a person has an abundance of capital, he does not need to do much business; he only needs to give the capital to the money changers, as the Lord Jesus said, and he will get the principal back with interest (cf. Matt. 25:27). This shows that a twenty percent rate of increase is not a high requirement.
Nearly every corporation today, whether big or small, has an accounting department that keeps statistics for the sake of planning. There has to be planning in the operation of any company. Even in a family, planning is important so that the family can measure expenditures by income. Without planning, it is hard for a business to function. The range of planning includes not only income and expenses but also a schedule for the progress of the business. Today everything is very advanced in Taiwan, including the import and export trade, but we are still carrying out our work in the way that we did thirty-five years ago. Furthermore, we have lost almost all our strong practices in the process. In particular, we abandoned the way of leading people with small groups. Consequently, we have not been able to keep people.
Many of us passed through those years. I hope that we would honestly face the situation. Currently, we need to consider our statistics and plan. We need to check the statistics, and then we can have a proper plan to produce a twenty percent increase annually so that our number will double after four years.
Nearly all the Chinese are conservative in character. Even though we have passed through a “Reform Movement” and even a revolution, most people are conservative to the point that the country cannot catch up with the age. Hence, we all need to turn; we need to reform and not be so conservative in our way of doing things. Truth cannot change, because it is of God, but the way of proclaiming the truth has to keep changing, just as society has advanced from hand copying to machine printing. The globe rotates once a day; no one can change this schedule. We cannot change the globe, but we must constantly improve our means of transportation around the globe. We must keep improving and keep changing until we are brought into the age of the “747.”
In our work in Taiwan today, we are following the way that we used thirty-five years ago. Strictly speaking, we are even more than thirty-five years behind because we have abandoned some of the ways that worked. This is the reason that the number of people has not increased in the past twenty-eight years. If we had maintained an annual increase of twenty percent over the past twenty-eight years, the number of people in the church in Taipei today would be at least three hundred and eighty thousand. A twenty percent increase is not too idealistic. A Christian group in Korea reportedly has brought in three hundred thousand people in recent years. No matter how others may criticize them, they have gained a sizable number of people.
If we do not look at the statistics, I am afraid that we will remain self-satisfied, thinking that we have a big church because three thousand people attend every Lord’s Day meeting. On the surface, this number is not bad, but compared to the “capital” that we have invested, we must admit that this number is not acceptable. If we continue like this, we will not have even three thousand people after another twenty-eight years. If we do not advance, we will go backward. I beg you to pray for me, and may the Lord cover me with His precious blood, because I am already eighty-one years old. According to age, I have only a few years remaining. I am very concerned inwardly, and I hope that we can quickly find a way to go on. Although the Lord is merciful, He needs our cooperation in order to open a way for Him on earth.
As we look back over this period of history, there have been two great gains as a result of the Lord’s recovery coming to the English-speaking world. First, the Lord’s recovery has spread to the six major continents around the earth. This gives us much comfort. Second, because of the environment and the audience in the English-speaking world, especially in the United States, I have been able to finish the Life-studies for the twenty-seven books of the New Testament. If I had remained in Taiwan, the audience and the environment would not have been as adequate, and it would have been difficult to finish the Life-studies. Now the Lord’s recovery has a rich treasury. We need to thank the Lord for this.
When C. H. Spurgeon wrote an exposition and explanatory notes for Psalms, he called it The Treasury of David. Today we have the Recovery Version of the New Testament with footnotes, plus the Life-study messages for the twenty-seven books of the New Testament. This can be called the treasury of the Lord’s recovery. Recently, we interviewed two authoritative scholars of Greek, one in Great Britain and the other in Boston in the United States, and both scholars confirmed that our translation is quite accurate and that the words and sentences flow well. This is truly the Lord’s blessing.
The spreading of the Lord’s recovery to the six major continents and the completing of the treasury of the Life-studies of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are two great gains. Yet the loss of at least two hundred fifty thousand people is not small. I absolutely believe that if I had remained in Taiwan and had been able to pay attention to the matter of increase, we could have maintained a twenty percent rate of increase. If we had been able to maintain this rate every year, we would have three hundred thousand people by now. The truth among us is so rich; thus, if we are in one accord, there is no reason for not achieving this goal now.
We do not have three hundred thousand people today but only three thousand people. In comparison to this, the Lord’s recovery entered into the English-speaking world, spread to the six major continents, and gained a treasury with the Recovery Version of the New Testament and the Life-study of the New Testament. Comparing these two, it is hard for me to choose between them. In principle, if there were three hundred thousand people in the church in Taipei today, they would be a great power in the Lord’s recovery. I believe that at least one thousand saints would be going overseas for the spreading. If every saint offered just one hundred U.S. dollars a year, there would be thirty million dollars yearly to support the spread of the Lord’s recovery. Between remaining in Taiwan to work in order to produce three hundred thousand people and bringing the Lord’s recovery to the six major continents and finishing the Recovery Version with footnotes and the Life-study of the New Testament, it is hard to say which is more valuable. We will have to wait until eternity to have an accurate evaluation.
We have put out statistics so that we will be deeply impressed with how much we have delayed the Lord’s work. There are three thousand people meeting regularly in the church in Taipei, the financial offerings every month are considerable, and even our once wooden building has been replaced with a beautiful meeting hall. However, we are not able to adequately support the Lord’s move for spreading. As a result, there are fewer and fewer full-timers; there are not even enough full-timers to serve locally, not to mention to go abroad. According to the situation in Southeast Asia, Indonesia is a great field for the work, but we do not have anyone to send there. If our situation continues for another twenty-five years, there will be fewer and fewer who can go. If this is the case, how can the Lord have a way?
We need to wake up. If we stay at home to study Greek, read the Bible, and pursue the growth in life, we will not have any fruit. The most famous place related to the pursuit of the growth in life was Brother T. Austin-Sparks’s Honor Oak. Although he passed away only a little more than ten years ago, Honor Oak has already declined, and people no longer speak of its so-called pursuit of life. The Brethren paid the most attention to the study of the Bible, but now the Brethren have become so dead. The failures of the past should serve as a guide for the future. We must accept this and not repeat these mistakes. We should never think that we can give a satisfactory account to the Lord as long as we just understand the truth and pay attention to life. In the past twenty-eight years we have pursued the truth and paid attention to life, but what have we produced? We should not have truth and life without any results. This is not acceptable.
I hope that we will have the same understanding and view. We should not avoid our responsibility or blame one another and think that we can sleep peacefully. We must wake up. The leading brothers and the responsible brothers are not the only ones who will be held responsible for our situation; we all will be held responsible because we have not allowed the Lord to advance. When worldly people start a company and run a business, their primary goal is to gain a profit. If an owner runs a company for twenty-eight years, and his account shows that there has been no increase in assets, the owner has to ask himself, “What am I doing?” He cannot justify himself by saying that he has an established brand that is known worldwide. If we have only three thousand people meeting regularly after twenty-eight years, how can we not wake up?
Whether you are a co-worker or an elder, you need to be on the alert; you should not be without any consciousness that you have deviated from the proper way. Considering today’s situation, my heart cannot help but ache. We have been working for twenty-eight years and meeting faithfully, and even though there has been an addition of a few meeting halls, there has not been any increase in the real assets. I hope that this will deeply impress us so that we break away completely from the old ways of doing things, and even more, throw away such base things as disputing based on opinions, shirking responsibility, blaming others, struggling for power, and seeking for position. Rather, we need to be of one heart for the advance of the Lord’s recovery and to seek for the Lord to have a way to go on.
There is a saying: “It is everyone’s responsibility whether a country rises or falls.” Since we are all in the Lord’s recovery, we all have responsibility. We need to thank the Lord for His mercy that the church has not fallen into confusion and has not been divided again and again but rather has been preserved in oneness. Nevertheless, even though the church has been kept, the Lord does not have a way to go on. I hope that we would not criticize others but rather acknowledge our blame and examine ourselves to find out why there has not been an increase of even one percent in the past twenty-eight years. It is useless for a businessman to argue and reason about his situation; the success or failure of his business can be seen in its results. We are doing the Lord’s work, and we must admit that the number of people is an important consideration. If numbers are not important, the book of Acts would not speak of three thousand people being added on the day of Pentecost and later of another five thousand being added (2:41; 4:4).
We do not mean that we should go to an extreme of only paying attention to the number of people while neglecting truth and life. The Lord’s presence will not be here if we have only numbers without truth and life. We must study the truth and pursue life, but at the same time we also need to take care of statistics and planning; otherwise, we will not be able to give an account before the Lord. We are like a tree that grows but does not bear any fruit. As a rule, the branches must be cut off, and even the tree must be uprooted in order to not render the ground useless (cf. Luke 13:6-9). Although the Lord has mercy, we will be cut off sooner or later if we remain in the same condition and are not alert, and the Lord will raise up other people (cf. Matt. 3:9-10).
Hosea 7:8 says, “Ephraim is a cake / Not turned.” This word reveals the principle that whatever we do must be balanced. If we pay too much attention to one side but ignore the other side, we are unturned cakes. The Lord Jesus clearly said that we can recognize a tree by its fruit (Matt. 7:16-20). This is the best parable in the whole Bible concerning being balanced. John 15 also has a similar word, saying that in order for the believers to bear much fruit, they must abide in the Lord and let the Lord abide in them (vv. 1-8). In the past we have interpreted fruit as the fruit of life; we applied it only to people, not to life. This caused us to suffer loss. Being equipped with the truth and pursuing life without bearing fruit is a proof that we are not balanced.
As we are serving in the Lord’s recovery, we should not lose consciousness of the need to advance, thinking that we have some kind of “job security.” No one will succeed in engaging in an enterprise or managing a corporation merely by going to work according to a schedule. Every person who is successful in his enterprise puts his whole being into it and aggressively strives to improve. In the Lord’s recovery, especially in Taiwan, we have fallen into a situation of relying upon our “job security”; no one considers the situation of Lord’s recovery as being a matter of life and death.
In the past we said that we should not pay too much attention to the work but should pursue the knowledge of the truth and the growth in life. By this we meant that everyone in the Lord’s recovery should be doing the same work, not working to make himself well-known or seeking to gain a position and reputation. That kind of work is a dead work. Pursuing life does not mean that we do not do any work, expecting that God will automatically rain down “manna.”
In order to release the truth, I have diligently worked, immersing myself completely in the project of the Life-study of the New Testament and the Recovery Version with footnotes. Consider the footnote on great in 2 Timothy 2:20. There are only a few lines in this footnote, and it may take only a minute to read it. However, I spent at least two hours writing it. In order to write the outlines and footnotes, two assistants help me every morning. After an afternoon nap, when my mind is clearer, I consider what I wrote in the morning to see if there are grammatical errors, if there is some deficiency or lack in its scriptural basis, or if the wording needs to be strengthened or improved. After the evening meetings I often consider the notes some more and make revisions. I have put forth a great deal of effort to finish the Life-study of the New Testament and the Recovery Version of the New Testament.
Many years ago I told the serving ones in the church in Taipei that they had an extremely important work to do, but they did not do it. This is not a complaining word but a word that describes a fact. Before I went to the United States to start the work in 1962, I fellowshipped with the elders that we needed to scientifically study the reason that so many people in our records did not come to the meetings; we needed to do this so that we could find a way to solve this problem. I said this very seriously at that time, but no one did anything. There can be no reason other than being complacent, lazy by nature, and unwilling to put forth an all-out effort.
According to my observation, a person’s failure to do something is not related to an inability on his part but to laziness. We have all heard the fable of the race between the hare and the tortoise. The hare lost the race because he was lazy, even though he was capable, whereas the tortoise won the race because he acknowledged his incapability and diligently endeavored to make up for his lack of speed. This speaks of the importance of character.
In 1953 we conducted a training that emphasized thirty points of character (see the book entitled Character). The Japanese are not as smart as the Chinese, but the Japanese succeed because they are not lazy; they do things in a thorough way. Although the Chinese are smart, they like to cut corners, so they constantly fail. Thirty-five years ago, when I started the work in Taipei, everything was done in a spartan manner. The meeting hall and the workers’ home were spartan. My family of twelve, including helpers, lived in a house the size of sixteen tatamis [approximately two hundred eighty square feet]. There were only two bamboo chairs and one coffee table, which I used as a desk. I started the publication work in this spartan way. The first book I put out to supply the church in Taipei was Crucial Truths in the Holy Scriptures, containing sixty topics. Today, however, the publication work of the ministry supplies six hundred churches on the earth.
The workers’ home had an “economy-class” flavor, and although the furnishings and decorations, including tables, chairs, beds, benches, and blankets, were spartan, they were still orderly. When I went abroad, I entrusted the workers’ home to the care of the co-workers. After twenty years, however, everything has become shabby and messy. The ultimate cause of this is not related to life or work but to character and responsibility. I am speaking to the young people: you need to study hard and cultivate a character of doing things seriously, accurately, and persistently to the end.
Presently, the Lord’s recovery has a publication work in the United States, Taiwan, Japan, and Germany. The quality of the publications from the Gospel Book Room in Taipei has advanced, but it cannot compare with that of the other three places. According to the quality of printing, Japan is number one, Germany is number two, and the United States is number three. The reason for this is related to character, not to life or work. Because of a lack in character, once something is handed to us, it becomes inferior in quality.
Paul says, “God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of sobermindedness” (2 Tim. 1:7). The word spirit refers to the human spirit regenerated and indwelt by the Holy Spirit (John 3:6; Rom. 8:16). If we truly live in the spirit, we will manifest power, love, and sobermindedness. Our character is manifested in the things that we do. In other words, if a person really has some growth in life, his work will be very presentable and decent. Any talk of life is vain when the manifestation of our work is insufficient.
Our pursuit of life is very much related to our character, which is expressed in our attitude in doing things, including even our clothing and appearance. I started training my character when I was saved at a young age. I keep the furnishings in my study in an orderly manner. When I finish using something, I put it back where it belongs. When I do things, I do them thoroughly or not at all. It is a pity that the work in Taiwan became sloppy and unacceptable when it was handed over to you.
I am speaking an honest word to you in love. You should not try to excuse yourself by saying that you are not proper material and thus shift the responsibility to others. If we receive the Lord’s grace and are faithful to Him, we will not allow His work to fall into such a condition. If we want to do well in our work for the Lord, we must do more than just talk. Doing the Lord’s work depends on our character and our attitude. A person with a sloppy character cannot achieve anything.
Another problem in our character is opinions. This applies especially to the young brothers, who are always quick to express their opinions when they serve. This is a big problem in the work. In my eighteen years of co-laboring with Brother Watchman Nee, I never had any opinion. It is easy to talk about life today, but if you have learned the lessons of life in a thorough and real way, why do you have so many opinions? You talk about life, but you do not have the manifestation of life. Furthermore, in relation to the truth, you cannot write properly and logically or release a deep and profound message with a solid foundation. The Lord’s work has been at a standstill from 1956 until now because of the problem of your character.
I thank the Lord that you are very faithful, know the church, keep the ground, learn the truth, and pursue life. But because of the problem of your character, you do not do anything thoroughly and seriously. Thus, your character makes failure inevitable, killing proper situations and harming the work. In a competition, someone who is indifferent, rather than absolute, will inevitably fall behind the others and not win the gold medal. This is why, after two thousand years, the Lord still cannot find a way.
I hope that these words will provoke us and inspire us. Neither shrinking back nor being competitive and neither being humble nor proud are the right way. The right way is to be diligent, to be unafraid of difficulties, and to do things in a thorough way. If we are going to prepare information cards, we must make sure to check everything thoroughly, and if we are going to practice the small groups, we need to do it seriously.
Japanese automobile companies are very successful in the United States. One of them has an office in Southern California. The company has more than six hundred American employees, who work according to regular office hours. There are, however, some small rooms in the back of the building. It is the Japanese employees who work in these small rooms; they often conduct research until midnight, and some even live there. This is the secret to the success of Japanese enterprises; that is, there is a group of people who labor diligently, strive desperately, and study continually to improve. In contrast, we are at a standstill today because of our indifferent character and complacent attitude. As a result, the work in the Lord’s recovery cannot move forward.
In the training on character in 1953, we spoke of how to conduct ourselves, how to do things, and how to work. If we do not know how to conduct ourselves, we will not know how to do things; if we do not know how to do things, we will not know how to work. Not long after the training, however, we started to ignore these matters and eventually completely abandoned them. Thus, it has been difficult for us to even maintain the status quo over the past thirty years. This is not a matter of life or work but a matter of how to do things. If the brothers would do things with an urgent attitude of life or death, the entire situation in the Lord’s recovery would change.
The young saints must be stirred up. You must take a new way and not repeat history. I am not asking you to change the Lord’s truth or His salvation. You are not qualified to change them, because they cannot be changed. However, it is worthwhile to study how to preach the gospel of the Lord’s salvation and how to retain people by using the truth. For this reason, I would give some advice to the young people in this work. First, learn to not have any opinions but to hold on to the goal of the Lord’s recovery without wavering. Then endeavor to build up a good character in doing things — be serious, diligent, and thorough.
Our situation must change. Even if the change is not completely successful, there must be some reform. We need to study how to promote the preaching of the gospel in the homes, establish home and group meetings to retain the new ones, and encourage the saints to go out to shepherd others. In all these matters we must have the attitude of the Japanese. We must admit that the key to all these matters depends on being diligent, serious, and responsible in our character, that is, doing things persistently until we succeed. A mother works hard in order to bring up a child to be a useful person. We lack the spirit of being “duty bound.” I do not blame us for not laboring but for not laboring enough. It is worthwhile for us to learn from the Japanese. When they sweep a room, they sweep every corner thoroughly. When they dust the furniture, they do not leave even one dust particle. They do everything meticulously, thoroughly, and with great care. The success or failure of any enterprise depends on such an attitude. This is what we lack.
We have both the truth and life, and we have a rich treasury. We are truly in a great position. If every one of us has a positive, aggressive spirit, there will be no problem increasing the number of people. If the young people are willing to put forth an effort to pursue the truth, seek the growth in life, deal with their character, learn to be diligent and serious, and not have any opinions, the work in their hands will have a bright future. I hope that we would all pray for this very much.
