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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 3, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 18.

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The Call of the Years

By L. D. Santee

L. D. SANTEE
“Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” Mark 16:15.
“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” Matt. 24:14.
He sends us to earth’s dark nations, To the hearts whose hopes are dead, And bids us to tell of Jesus, The true and the living Bread.
The pitiless pain of absence Is ours, but we can not stay; For the call of the years, my brother, Is from God, and we must obey.
We tell of the home in heaven, That the Saviour’s love has bought; We lead from sin and malice, And every unkind thought; To “every tongue and people” Has the gospel found its way; For the call of the years, my brother, Is from God, and we must obey.
Come from your homes and help us, Ye that sit at the temple’s gate; The fields are white for the harvest, And for you the ages wait; No time now for idle dreaming, For slothfulness or delay; For the call of the years, my brother, Is from God, and we must obey.
Soon will the work be ended, The gospel message done, The world’s great harvest gathered, As sinks time’s setting sun; The signs of the Saviour’s coming Grow clearer day by day; For the call of the years, my brother, Is from God, and we must obey.
Dixon, Ill.