p. 358 | What are we Doing by L. H. Church

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Sep 16, 1875

What are we Doing.

By L. H. Church

It is evident that the Lord has intrusted to our care a message to the world. And what does it consist of? The last note of warning to the fallen world. The last call to the marriage supper. The last call of mercy that Jesus makes to sinners. A message to warn the world of its pending doom. But what are we doing to proclaim it? What are we doing to get it before those that are hungering and thirsting for the truth? Are we doing with our might what our hands find to do, knowing that the night cometh when no man can work? Are we keeping Joel's command, "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand."

What are we doing as we hear the call from every quarter, "Come over and help us?" Are we doing it? Where are those that are willing to say as did the prophet of old "Here am I, send me"? "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few." The master has said, "Go labor in my vineyard." Who is willing to go? Come let us start and prove our faith by our works. If we are not as eloquent as an Apollos, perhaps we can be as successful, in persuading some to come and hear others, as the woman of Samaria. If we cannot occupy the sphere of a Paul, perhaps we can that of an Aquila. If we cannot exhort like Peter, let us not flee like Jonah.

"Faith without works is dead." Have we not tracts that we can scatter to the four winds of heaven? Are we doing it? Have we not the instrumentalities by which we can stir up families in the four quarters of the globe? Are we doing it? Others may be, but I am afraid that I, like Peter, James, and John, am sleeping just upon the brink of the greatest event that ever transpired. L. H. CHURCH.