The Call to Service by F. W. Paap

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 17, 1914

The Call to Service

By F. W. Paap

The call to service now sounding throughout our ranks is being nobly responded to on the part of many. World-war conditions serve to arouse God's people and to deepen the longing in every heart for the ushering in of that bright and glorious day when pain and tears and death and sighs will be no more. What a few realize in this direction is what we want every Seventh-day Adventist to know. “God expects personal service from every one to whom he has intrusted a knowledge of the truth for this time.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. IX, page 30. “It is an eternal law of Jehovah that he who accepts the truth that the world needs is to make it his first work to proclaim this truth.”—Id., Vol. VII, page 13.

We wish that every church in the North American Division would do as well as did the Northside German church of Chicago. The following is taken from a letter just received from the leader, Brother David Voth:—

“Last Sabbath the Northside German church of Chicago had its Harvest Ingathering program. At the close of the program the money that had been solicited by the church members was collected, which amounted to $202.16. Our church has fifty-one members, so we raised almost four dollars a member. We made up our part of the Twenty-cent-a-week Fund for the whole year, and about fifty dollars more. Last Sabbath was a happy day to our church. We all rejoiced because we had a part in the Lord's work.”

We trust that our dear people everywhere will make good at this needy and most opportune time. Now is the time to labor. Soon it will be too late. May the spirit of Israel's God, the spirit of service, rest upon this people. We are surely nearing the end. May we all be ready for the midnight call.

F. W. Paap.