Manitoba by O. E. Cummings

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 28, 1902

Manitoba.

By O. E. Cummings

Manitoba has been blessed with an abundant harvest, the average yield of wheat per acre for the province being twenty-three bushels; and much of it is as fine as any grown in the world. Thousands of acres were yet in the stack on November 1. Thrashing was progressing rapidly, yet Christmas found it unfinished. In every village were seen the loads of grain arriving and being marketed, after which it was borne by the railroads to the larger markets.

This great harvest is an object lesson of the harvest of orders that could be secured by the canvassers, and the sheaves that might be garnered at the last great harvest. But it is sad to know that practically nothing is being done in regular canvassing lines for our literature. No advantage is being taken of the many golden opportunities.

When the Lord presented the needs of his work to Isaiah, and asked who would go, how quickly and gladly he responded, “Here am I, Lord; send me.”

And for half a century he remained true to that call to service, even until the cities were wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land was utterly desolate.

The same call for volunteers is made to-day, and especially do the needy fields plead for help. Those who respond should enlist for no shorter term than did Isaiah, for, until in heaven is spoken the word, “It is finished,” there will always be places to labor and hearts to receive the message.

O. E. Cummings.