Shall the Work Be Done?
By I. J. Hankins
I HOPE no one is getting tired of hearing about the work with “Christ’s Object Lessons.” As a people, we never engaged in a more worthy enterprise. The Lord has directed the movement, and has called every individual into active service. If we believe the Testimonies, we cannot for a moment question this; but it is evident that all have not responded to the Lord’s call; some perhaps, like the twenty-two thousand of Gideon’s army, are fearful, faint-hearted, and choose to remain at home. Maybe they are waiting for a sign, as did Gideon,—for the dew to wet the fleece, but leave the ground dry, and vice versa. Now the call to Gideon was just as distinct and just as imperative without these signs as with them. To my mind, the necessity for the additional sign was an evidence of unbelief on the part of Gideon. It would be well for every one carefully to consider what God has said about the work with “Christ’s Object Lessons.” Read the chapter in “Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. VI. Study it. Consider it a letter to yourself, for that is what it is. This good work is now going forward in all parts of the United States, and in many other countries as well. We have committed ourselves to a definite work, a work which God in his goodness and wisdom has planned for us, not an impossible work, not a work causing hardship, but a work attended by his special blessing, and in which blessed fruits will appear. I. J. HANKINS.