p. 30 | LABOR AND REWARD

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 7, 1873

LABOR AND REWARD.

ARE you ready to labor, my brother, In the field of your Master and Lord? Lift your eyes! it is whitening to harvest ’Neath the ripening power of the word.

Hearken now to the Husbandman, calling For more laborers, faithful and true. O delay not, my brother! delay not! Is the Master not calling for you?

Take your sickle and go as a reaper; There are places for workmen of skill; But if this may not be, as a gleaner You can render good help if you will.

Failing this, you can follow the workmen, And, when weary and faint with their toil, Quench their thirst from the cool-flowing fountain, Or anoint their parched brows with fresh oil.

Does your ease-loving nature deter you From the burden and heat of the day? Give no heed to its craven suggestions! To the field of your duty away!

Come there to you sad thoughts of unfitness For a work of such labor and care? Let the implements then of the husbandry Be all-hallowed by faith and by prayer.

Thus, baptized with the Spirit of power In your new consecration, away To the field of your duty and labor! For the Master expects you to-day.

Do you ask of the wages, my brother? Not in gold or in silver paid down; But in peace passing all understanding, And in Heaven a laborer’s crown. —Christian Advocate.