The Calls for Help by I. Sanborn

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 18, 1875

The Calls for Help.

By I. Sanborn

A FEW weeks ago, I put a notice in the REVIEW without qualification, requesting any person who wanted preaching in his locality to write to me. Within ten days, I have received twenty letters calling for help; one from New Jersey; three from Illinois; five from Iowa; five from Wisconsin; the rest from Kansas, Dakotah, Nebraska, and New York. And I consider most all of them good openings. But where are the consecrated men to fill these calls? Truly the harvest is great, and the laborers are few. Why should we not pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into his harvest?

I wish to say to those dear friends, not in the Wisconsin Conference, who have written to me, If it were possible for me to come over and help you, I would most gladly do it. The people in different parts of the Wisconsin Conference are urging and pleading for help. My spirit is stirred within me when I read such pleading calls. Dear brethren, pray on—continue to send up your cries to the Lord of the harvest, and believe that he hears you, because none ever cried to him in vain.

I notice that several of the calls above referred to are the result of an interest awakened by reading a tract or a trial volume of the REVIEW, which has caused the readers to see light in God’s word. Some have already commenced keeping the Sabbath, and are calling for preaching. May the Lord send them the living preacher soon, is my prayer. I will, with the blessing of God, answer the calls from Wisconsin as fast as possible. I am now trying to follow up one here in Baraboo, Sauk County. I have had four meetings with good interest, considering the circumstances.

By the grace of God to help me, henceforth I shall give all there is of me to this precious work. Pray for me.

I. SANBORN.

Baraboo, Feb. 24, 1875.