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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 9, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 33, No. 7.

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WHAT ARE WE DOING?

By Eliza Putnam

WHAT are we doing to prepare ourselves to stand amid the perils of the last days that are near at hand? Are we seeking our own personal interests, caring for none but ourselves? Or are we up and doing, knowing that the end is drawing nearer. There are souls all around us, perishing for want of knowledge of the present truth. What are we doing? Is there any word dropped here and there, when we have an opportunity, to some careless sinner, or some tried and afflicted friend?
We all have a present work to do. There is something for every Christian to do. The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. The self-sacrificing, where are they? It is human nature to desire ease and comfort without being disturbed. But the time is drawing nearer for the closing up of this world's history. What is done must be done quickly. If we do not wake up out of sleep, and go to work, the Lord will raise up others to do our work, and take our crown. God's work must be done; and blessed is that one who labors faithfully and patiently in the Master's vineyard.
When there is the greatest need for us to be up and doing, it is then that Satan will cause us to feel sleepy and disinterested if ever. If we for one moment could see how much is at stake, it would arouse us. Satan's agents are trying hardest of all to cause disturbance in the church of God, raise jealousy, evil surmising, and evil speaking of each other. When shall we get awake so as to discern between right and wrong? The time is coming when God's people will be all of one heart and one mind. Those that will not search their hearts, and seek to be converted, will be shaken out. Those who are disinterested now, unless awakened to realize their situation, will fall out by the way. Will it be you or I?
We must be in earnest about this work. If the Lord has called us into his vineyard, he has surely something for us to do. We who have had so much light, will have to give an account of how we let it shine before the world. We need not be ministers to have a work to do. If we cannot stand in the pulpit and preach, we can pray while they are speaking, and then live out our profession in our daily walk. ElizA PUTNAM.
South Norridgewock, Me.