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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 9, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 26.

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Immediate Work.

How frequently is it the case that persons at the conclusion of some important enterprise, or at the passing away of some golden opportunity, look back and see how they might have turned their privileges to almost infinitely better account. A little forethought would have shown them all the possibilities for good, in season for them to improve them all, and saved them the mortification of learning them by experience, and looking back upon them with regret.
We now stand at the threshold of two very important enterprises, calculated to be of immediate advantage to the cause of truth: the trial volume of the REVIEW, designed to spread the clear truths of our position, in the best manner before thousands of new readers, and the publication of the True Missionary, designed to furnish a record of missionary work, and present new incentives for more earnest effort in that important field. A little intense thought, now, on these enterprises, prompted by a sincere desire to serve to the best advantage the cause of truth, will show how these may be the means of great good, the opportunities for which may, without this forethought, pass away forever unimproved.
Do not wait till the trial volume is ended, and then think, I wish I had sent it to such and such of my friends to whom it would have brought light and truth, and perhaps conviction of duty and salvation in the kingdom of God. Think up all such cases now, and send the papers in season.
Do not neglect to put forth efforts for your friends and neighbors, till circumstances shall perhaps so change that it will be difficult or impossible for you to have access to them, and you have to regret that you did not join in missionary work, and encourage the missionary enterprises now on foot, at a time when it might have been effectual for great good.
Be in season. No great enterprise can be accomplished without forethought. Dan. 11:25. Think and work. Much may be done to-day which perhaps cannot be done to-morrow. Time is short; and these opportunities are precious. Improve them well.