Working for the Truth

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 27, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 33.

Working for the Truth

THE truth of God will surely win its way in the world. Yes, but the fact does not excuse us from doing our best to secure its victory. The time of its absolute success may depend, in the divine providence, upon the rendering or withholding of our personal labors in its behalf; and even so slight a delay, as it seems to us that the lack of our co-operation can cause, may be a terrible evil to more worlds than our own. The truth will win in the end, but will not, must not, our respective shares in the glory and the joy of the final, blessed consummation, be determined by the proportionate willingness or reluctance to work for the Master which we who profess to belong to him now shall have manifested? Then the happiest spirits will be they who here did not think much of sharing the honors of victory; but who thought often and earnestly how they could make their powers and influence—no matter how humble—tell most in aiding the success of the divine kingdom among men, even if they could serve only by helping to remove hindrances.—Sel.