Time for a Quick Work by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Dec 1, 1904

Time for a Quick Work

By W. A. S.

“THE second coming of Christ to this world will not be long delayed.” Let us keep face to face with the fact. Prophecy is fulfilling before our eyes. We must show the true-hearted in every land the way of salvation from all the evil yet to come upon the earth. The visible breaking up of things has been preparing the minds of men to give attention to the advent warning. Among the millions of the East, where half the world lies in darkness, there is a growing conviction that the end of the age is at hand. Now for a swift crusade through the waiting lands, a grand rally to carry the standard into every unoccupied field, and the work is almost done, and we are almost home.

It is a time for action rather than talk. It is a frightful sin to be at ease in Zion, thanking God for blessings received, while a world is perishing unwarned. “There is a world to be saved!” The worker in the field must cut loose, and put his life and his all into the hand of God for service. It is only his reasonable service. Equally, then, the believer who remains to work and pray and hold the ropes at home must live for but the one purpose of doing the Lord’s business in the earth. For that one thing every business enterprise is to be conducted. Every gift for earning means is to be consecrated to God’s service just as definitely as any other gift. Every energy of the soul and every resource on earth must be held absolutely subject to God’s call. Anything less than this is treason to High Heaven at the very crisis in the great controversy. In the way in which we are facing this problem of our world-wide work to-day, in the response we are giving to the calls for help, we are deciding our eternal destiny.

W. A. S.