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The Call of the Hour

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 1, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 31.

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The Call of the Hour

By F. G.

INTENSITY is taking possession of every earthly element, and history is making more rapidly than ever before. The work of God in the earth is closing. Our young people are arousing to the situation as never before. The calls are coming so rapidly from all lands that their hearts are being stirred. Our people have no greater asset for the finishing of this work than their young men and women. We must avail ourselves of this great resource. Our youth must be led to realize their possibilities. Every effort must be made to qualify them for the important places which they may fill in the work.
It is high time that our churches should realize their great responsibility in this matter of getting every young man and woman to secure an education for immediate service.
It is impossible for any of us to tell who may be of most service in God's work. We are not to judge that this one or that one may or may not do in an able manner the work of the Lord. We must remember that man looks upon the outward appearance, while God looks upon the heart. We are instructed to educate all our young men and women to be of service in the Lord's work. It is a certain fact that unless our churches, our parents, and our young people themselves arouse to the needs of the hour, the work of God will be greatly hindered.
Within two months two or three score of our academies and colleges will open their doors for another year's work. Every one of these schools should be filled to overflowing. Every one of our church-schools should also be filled with earnest, consecrated boys and girls. Within the next two or three years there should go out from our schools at least a thousand workers. Unless we have large numbers of recruits, we can not expect the truth to go through the length and breadth of the benighted lands—lands where millions live who have never heard of a Saviour. May God help us as a people to see that no question is of greater importance to us at this time than the education and fitting of our young people, and even our boys and girls, for service in the finishing of this work. F. G.