OUR OPPORTUNITY by W. F. Oldham

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 2, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 40.

OUR OPPORTUNITY.

By W. F. Oldham

The startled nations, aroused from heathen lethargy, are uneasily and expectantly conscious that the great God is about to appear among them in strange, new ways. All the lands are wide open to Gospel effort; all the languages have been mastered; foundations have been laid; beginnings have been made everywhere. The militant hosts of the Lord Christ have made accurate survey of the whole task of discipling a world. All mere earthly romance of foreign missions has been swallowed up in the deepened fervor of hearts that have counted the cost, and are prepared to toil and suffer that Christ may be known everywhere. Two things are wanted—a larger endowment of power, a larger support to make possible a wider Gospel effort. Thousands of workers in the fields ripe to harvest! Shall there not be a mighty chorus of intercessory prayer in the opening days of the new century, that they may all be empowered by the Holy Ghost for a great ingathering?—W. F. Oldham, D. D.