Stay up their Hands by A. M. L.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 24, 1872

Stay up their Hands.

By A. M. L.

As I take up our dear paper from week to week, I turn with interest first to the pages containing the reports of the progress of the cause. It is evident that God is moving on the hearts of the people in a special manner, by means which he has ordained for the proclamation of the most solemn truths this world has ever heard. The burden of the work is beginning to rest heavily on his ministering servants. In almost every report their cry is, “Pray for us,” “Brethren, do n't forget us,” “Are you holding us up in your prayers?”

Who can read these earnest appeals for help, without participating in the spirit of their labors, and crying earnestly to God that he will stand by them, uphold them by his free Spirit, and give them a fresh anointing, enabling them to stand at their post? Would not a day of fasting and prayer among the churches, for this special object, be appropriate, that all may feel the burden of this work?

The interest to hear is on the increase, and while God is so manifestly at work, let us all come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty. While our preachers stand in the forefront of the battle, let the reserve force be ready to turn the battle to the gate by prayer, and every way in which they can help. God will bless, and the cry will swell louder and still louder.

I feel unworthy to write, but my interest and feeling on the subject is intense. I cannot read these reports without tears, and my poor prayers go up in response, “Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thy heritage to reproach.”

A. M. L.

Palermo, N. Y.