Not the Lord's Fault

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 3, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 14.

Not the Lord's Fault.

IF Christian enterprises languish and the Lord's business is "dull," the Lord's supplies have not grown short, but the Lord's people have grown slack. Let them put into Christian interests but one-tenth of the energy and patience they put into secular interests, and they will soon fill churches, treasuries, and hearts—their hearts first. If we are cold, it is not that we have no fire, but that we are too lazy to strike our own match. You pray, "Thy kingdom come." Good, but it comes with costs. What will you allow your investment in its heavenly promises to cost you? We have asked comers to the Lord's table, "What do you believe?" We ought to ask quite as earnestly, "What do you propose to do?"—The Advance.