EXPECT CONVERSION

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 17, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 33.

EXPECT CONVERSION.

HE who preaches the Gospel as God has given it, and where God has sent him and bidden him to preach it, expecting and working for the conversion of men, is not likely to be disappointed; and he who works in his own way, and seeks his own pleasure, and does not expect conversion, is not often disappointed in his expectations. If men lose sight of the great object of Christian labor; if they cease to hold direct communion with God, and hold their commission from men and not from Him; if they devote themselves to literary discussions, doctrinal disputes and theories and measures, what wonder if they in the harvest day come empty-handed even from fertile fields.

Souls are perishing, and a thousand million of the children of Adam have never heard that Christ died for them. Time is short, and the petty separations and divisions among Christians are not worthy to be named in comparison with the vast interests and mighty responsibilities that rest upon the church of God. Let Christians awake, and put forth their efforts for lost men; let their souls feel the burden of the dying multitudes around them, and let them go forth bearing precious seed with tears, and a prayer-hearing God will bless the seed sown; and the faithful stewards of the Lord will be co-workers, and help forward the work to its consummation.—Selected.