p. 418 | To the Rescue by William Ambrose Spicer

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 25, 1901

To the Rescue.

By William Ambrose Spicer

SURELY, hearts everywhere are responding to God's call to us to lift the Christiania burden out of the way. Have you ever witnessed a railway wreck or other disaster, where men and women were being held in peril of life by tangled wreckage? If so, you know how the cries of distress nerve the rescuers to feats of unwonted strength as they tear at obstructing girders and broken timbers. The world is wrecked. Men and women are perishing in the darkness. The cry of need goes up to God day and night. Once the Spirit of God causes us to hear that cry, we can never again find rest save in the work of rescue. These burdens of debt are so many obstructions in the way of devoting all our resources to sending this glad message of release speedily through every land. Let us tear every obstruction aside. It can quickly be done, for “human agencies are the hands of heavenly instrumentalities.” This is the promise in this very matter of Christiania. All heaven has come to the rescue of the perishing, and we have the blessed privilege of being the hands of heaven to lift every burden and break every yoke. God's strong right hand held back nothing, but has freely given us all. It means much to be one of the hands of heaven, for heaven's pitying love cannot hold back in the hour of need.

W. A. SPICER, Cor. Sec. Mission Board.