WITH ONLY A YEAR’S EXPERIENCE.
By A. O. Tait
In a recent number of the REVIEW we gave a report from a brother residing in Tennessee, who told how he was disposing of three hundred copies of the Signs of the Times each week. It will be remembered that this brother had been in the truth only about one year. We are just in receipt of another letter from a brother residing in Pennsylvania, who tells us that he has been in the truth only about a year, and a club of one hundred and eighty Signs is sent him each week from this office. He writes that he is using twenty copies of Hausfreunds, and ten REVIEWS besides. We quote the following from his letter:— “These Signs represent so many visits to persons in this city, answering questions to those inquiring, speaking to those who wish to know the truth, reading and praying with those that are sick, holding Bible readings with those that will welcome the words read. Usually a house will be opened to me, and those of the neighbors who are interested will come. So the Lord has given me a great work to do. I have been in the truth now about one year. The Lord brought me through the Red Sea in regard to working; but as soon as I fully trusted the Lord to verify his promises in me, he gave me work.” “Now I work five days in the week, keep the Sabbath according to the commandment, and on the first day of the week I work for Christ with the Signs and our other papers, and in the evenings, hold’ Bible readings. So my life is a busy one. Praise the Lord for it. I want to warn all I can; for when I look at this great city, I think of what would befall it were Jesus to come now. I realize that if I fail to warn all I can, the blood of souls will be upon me. Pray that the Lord will bestow upon me the gift of the Spirit, that I may be faithful in the work he gives me to do.” Such a communication as this is indeed most inspiring. When a brother can have regular work for five days in the week, and go out on Sunday and dispose of two hundred and ten copies of our periodicals, hold Bible readings, and do visiting besides, it shows a zeal that is set on fire by the definite knowledge that the end of all things is right at hand, and the coming of the Lord is nigh, even at the very doors. Do not such things as this fill our brethren and sisters who are doing practically nothing, with a desire to go into the great harvest field and labor for the Master? We may not be able to do very much to-day; but, as we improve the talents that God gives us, he has promised that these talents will be increased. And so we need not be surprised, when once we have entered upon the work, to find ourselves doing things that at the outset we regarded impossible. The world’s great harvest time is at hand. The workers are in the field. Who will go to work, and, through the circulation of our literature, by missionary visiting, or any other way possible, seek to gather souls for the heavenly garner?