Joyful Fields by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Sep 7, 1905

Joyful Fields

By W. A. S.

A BROTHER who is out in the evangelistic work while waiting for an opportunity to enter a foreign field wrote a little time ago:—

While I was at home last spring, we put in fifteen acres of crop to be dedicated to mission work in “the regions beyond.” My brother writes me that these fifteen acres show a more thrifty growth than the rest of the field. He attributes it to the blessing of the Lord.

Many a field this summer, we know, has been waving signals of the coming of the Lord. In that ninety-sixth Psalm, in which we are exhorted to declare God’s glory “among the heathen, his wonders among all people,” the Lord represents the fields as glad to swell the cry of the second advent: “Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.” W. A. S.