Are You Ready for Service?
By E. T. Russell
The Lord has a great work to be accomplished, and his business demands haste. Are you ready for service? The fields are white already to harvest. He says, “Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.” Is this not true? Does not everything indicate that we are living in the world's harvest time, and that soon the Son of man will put in the sickle, and gather the fruit of the earth? Many signs foretell that the great day is almost upon us; but one of the most convincing signs of the speedy coming of Christ is the increased missionary activity among that people who look for the Saviour to appear in this generation. Many have been carried by great ocean liners to different parts of the world to herald the message of his soon coming in fulfillment of the proclamation of the angel of Rev. 14: 6, 7. Conferences and individuals have given liberally of their means to the support of the workers in those fields; but there is need of more thorough work in the home field. There are unwarned souls all over around us. The responsibility of warning them rests on us, and we shall be held accountable if we do not act our part well. We cannot afford to remain inactive and let souls go down to ruin; for in so doing we ourselves shall suffer loss. The Lord has again and again urged us to greater diligence in missionary work, and has plainly told us that it is important that the publications containing present truth be placed in the hands of the people. He has told us that there should be one hundred canvassers where there is now one. Can he count on you as a recruit for this good work? His eye is upon us; he desires us to bear fruit, and we cannot afford to disappoint him, and be counted as cumberers of the ground. We have too long been idlers. Let us now enlist for active service until the Master comes.