Getting up Wood Piles

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 17, 1903

“Getting up Wood Piles”

In one of our union conference papers we have noticed an interesting article from the secretary of a State tract society, in which he explains why there has been no canvassers’ report from his State during the past two weeks. He says, “Our canvassers have been getting up wood piles.” Too many, we fear, are making “wood piles” and haystacks instead of building upon the true foundation with eternal materials, such as “gold, silver, and precious stones,”—a building not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

The day is just at hand when “every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.” Our wood piles and haystacks will not stand in the burning day.

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well-doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”