The Call for Workers by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 9, 1883

The Call for Workers.

By Uriah Smith

THE first and abiding impulse of a converted soul is to help his fellows. In this way the gospel began. After Jesus, the great Shepherd, had come down to give his life a ransom for the world, John pointed two of his disciples to him as the Lamb of God. They followed him. One of these was Andrew, and he first went to his brother Simon Peter, and brought him to Jesus. The next day Jesus found Philip, and enlisted him in his service. And the first work of Philip was to hunt up Nathaniel, and bring him in.

So it has been, and so it must be. Those who have been made recipients of the truth must make it known to others. He who sits idly by, and sees his fellow-men go down to ruin, without an effort to save them, is not cultivating the Spirit of Christ and is not preparing to enter into the joy of his Lord.

"And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever."

Shall we let the present opportunities pass, and the stars which we might secure fade from our crowns of rejoicing, and the crowns themselves fall from our grasp, and the kingdom recede from our reach, and life and all its joys be lost forever?

You answer, No; but the answer, to be effectual, must be, not in words only, but in works also.

"O God, my inmost soul convert, And deeply on my thoughtful heart Eternal things impress. Cause me to feel their solemn weight, And tremble on the brink of fate, And wake to righteousness."

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