Laborers Wanted by M. Wood

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 6, 1872

Laborers Wanted.

By M. Wood

“LABOR not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you; for him hath God the Father sealed.” John 6:27.

There are many persons who never think of opening the Bible, the true and infallible word of the Almighty, and reading therein, nor do they ever think of such a thing as attending public worship. Such, from heedlessness, prejudice, or hatred, concern not themselves about the things which are of the utmost importance, and their eternal good. A tract, to such persons, one of those silent preachers, a missile weapon, which the Spirit of God may direct in such a way and manner as to result in the conviction and conversion of precious souls, unassailable from any other quarter, is often the means used by our Heavenly Father in bringing whole families into the truth, and to the keeping of his (God's) Sabbath. And such being the case, as we know it is, why do we still loiter behind in heartless indifference, as though our hands and feet were tied, and our hearts not in the service of our Heavenly Master, but in the vain, foolish, and perishable things of this world.

We want to wake up, and go to work for the Master while it is yet day. We want to move forward, join in the noble work of spreading the third angel's message, the last message of mercy ever to be given to a dying world. What we want is to take hold of this work in real earnest. Let every man, woman, and child, become missionary laborers. Let no heart be cold, no hand idle, and no purse reluctant. Oh! that we may move forward while there is room left us in the ranks of those whose toil is goodness, and whose recompense is victory. Come, Christians, and engage in the service of God. Come cheerfully, come eagerly, fully determined to do something for Jesus, who has done, and is still doing, so much for us.

Have we ever been invited to an enterprise of such grandeur and glory as that of scattering the rays of light through a benighted country, and spreading abroad the oracles of the Lord our God, that some desolate family may read, heed, and obey, God's truths, and become a radiating point of grace and truth to a neighborhood of error and vice? If the majority of Sabbath-keepers could be constrained to feel the burden of the third angel's message, and would move forward and take hold of the work of distributing tracts, pamphlets, books, &c., pertaining to present truth, we should set forward a system of happiness, which would go on with accelerated motion and augmented vigor until the coming of our Saviour, to reward every man according to his work.

M. Wood.

Boston, Mass.