The Urgency of Preaching the Gospel
“Ah, my friends,” wrote the Rev. F. B. Meyer, “listen to the roar of the Niagara of human souls pouring moment after moment into the unseen without God and without hope. Remember that each one is as sensitive to joy and sorrow, to hope and fear, as you are yourself; remember that you have that which they need as urgently as the starving need bread, and then consider if you cannot sympathize in the vehemence of the apostle’s passionate desire to carry them the gospel: ‘Necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward!’”