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COME, LABOR ON!

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 11, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 19.

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COME, LABOR ON!

Come, labor on! Who dares stand idle on the harvest plain, While all around him waves the golden grain, And to each servant does the Master say, “Go, work to-day”?
Come, labor on! Claim the high calling angels cannot share— To young and old the gospel gladness bear; Redeem the time; its hours too swiftly fly, The night draws nigh.
Come, labor on! The laborers are few, the field is wide, New stations must be filled, and blanks supplied; From voices distant far, or near at home, The call is, “Come!”
Come, labor on! The enemy is watching night and day To sow the tares, to snatch the seed away; While we in sleep our duty have forgot, He slumbers not.
Come, labor on! Away with gloomy doubts and faithless fear; No arm so weak but may do service here; By feeblest agents can our God fulfill His righteous will.
Come, labor on! No time for rest till glows the western sky, While the long shadows o’er our pathway lie, And a glad sound comes with the setting sun, “Servants, well done!”
Come, labor on! The toil is pleasant, the reward is sure; Blessed are those who to the end endure— How full their joy, how deep their rest shall be, O Lord, with thee. —Sel.