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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 27, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 39.

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Give to Finish the Work

By G. W. Wells

G. W. WELLS
We are proclaiming to the world what we are pleased to call the third angel's message, and it is certain that this is the closing message of the gospel. We know, too, that when the work involved in giving this message shall have been finished, the whole gospel work will close. The time has come when this work is to be done. We have but this one generation—and that very near its close—in which to complete it; yet “this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”
However great may be the work yet to be done, God's hand is shaping events, and “he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.”
How clear it must appear to all that the progress of the work to be donemust depend more or less on the attitude of the church. May God give us an overwhelming sense of the grave responsibility.
Let us keep in mind that our annual offering for the colored work in the South is to be taken up the first Sabbath in October, 1906. Why not plan to give more liberally this year than ever before? God is blessing this country with unparalleled prosperity, which fully enables us to return to him of that which is his own. Well may we thank God for what his blessing has enabled us to do already in this Southland.
Not for a moment would I suggest that the truth is popular or that superstition has not weakened the people. But the joyful thing is that there is every evidence of the present working of the Holy Spirit. Light is breaking in on this neglected field, and God is saying “to the South, Keep not back.”
When you learn that in this one State of Georgia there are over a million colored people, and we have but one lady Bible worker who is devoting her entire time to instructing them, you may better appreciate our need of means to support workers.
The promised Canaan seems but a little way ahead, and yet a great work must be accomplished before our Master comes. The time for the enlargement and finishing of the work has come. How glorious to see God's arm made bare and the message of the judgment-hour speeding to the nations! May we unite in our prayers to God for this needy field as we meet together the first Sabbath in October; and God forbid that we should quench the Spirit as it may lead us to give liberally of our means to aid in finishing this blessed work.
Alpharetta, Ga.