The Song of Jubilee by G. A. Grauer

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 11, 1902

The Song of Jubilee

By G. A. Grauer

We are told that as soon as a church has sold its full quota of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” they are to sing the song of jubilee, and for this reason the church-members of Wausau, Wis., have begun to sing the song of jubilee.

It was pretty hard work at the beginning to get all our members to work. Lack of time, timidity, no ability, etc., were considered sufficient reasons to excuse them from this work.

After getting the whole church together, we studied the Lord’s will and promises concerning this work. In Ex. 32:26 Moses called for a separation between the true believers and the idolaters. After the sons of Levi had gathered around their leader, Moses bade them go to work, and commanded every man to slay his brother and his companion. It would have been just as easy at that time for the Lord to cause the earth to open her mouth and swallow up these rebels as it was for Him to do so at the time of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. See Num. 16:28–32. But the Lord did not do so at this time. Why?—He wanted to test the loyalty of His professed people.

Their history is our history. In Rev. 18:4 God calls for the separation. We all have complied with this call in separating ourselves from the fallen churches; and now the Lord calls upon us to roll back the reproach that is resting on His cause; namely, the great debts on our educational institutions. It would be just as easy for the Lord to-day to open up the earth and disclose its treasures to us, or to rain gold from heaven, or to touch the heart of some multi-millionaire to give us the money to pay off these debts. Why does He not do so now?—Because He wants to test His people, to prove their loyalty, and therefore He has given us not the money, but the means to get it. And He tells us now: Son, daughter, go work in my vineyard to-day. Shall we obey the call?

If we are the remnant Church, the true Israel of God, we must prove it by works. Titus 2:14. We are not only to work, but we are to be zealous of good works, of yielding fruit. If we have a living connection with heaven, it is no more we that do these works, but it is Christ working in us. John 15:4, 5. Then we dwelt on such promises as those found in 2 Chron. 16:9 and Ps. 32:8, and the result was that every member went to work, and in less than one week our whole quota was sold. Quite a number of our church-members were absent from the city, but their quota was sold by the members present.

And best of all, not one of our members is satisfied with what is done, but each one purposes in his heart to keep on selling books, and so help other churches that have not such good territory, that they also may join with us in our song of jubilee, and so to labor on until this mighty song of victory resounds from ocean to ocean.

This work has done more for us here than has been done by all the preaching, praying, and Bible studies. It has put life into us. Praise the Lord.

G. A. GRAUER.