QUARTERLY T. AND M. MEETINGS.
By J. F. Bahler
How few attend these important meetings! What is the reason, brethren? Is it because of the few dollars that you might perchance have the privilege of donating towards a work that is high as hight and deep as depth, and that pertains to Heaven, and the glorious truths of the Bible, and to the gathering in of souls to rejoice in the precious truth, and to the future promised kingdom of God, where they with us shall put on everlasting life, at the appearing of our great King. Our Saviour’s life record is that of the greatest missionary that ever trod the earth. Let us imitate him in this wonderful work that is allotted to us. We are not called to give our lives as he was, hence let us not withhold the means that God has given us to forward his precious cause. And let us not, when the quarter rolls around, remain away from the place where the business of eternity is done in behalf of our fellow creatures, and where we may have the privilege of giving of our money, and helping with our talents to devise plans in which God and his angels are greatly interested. Come, come, to the T. and M. meetings. Come with your purses laden, or at least with what they do contain, consecrated to the good work, and with your hearts and minds full of good things, and thus learn to imitate the great Missionary, Jesus, and to walk in his footsteps, that when he shall appear ye may receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away, and be brought to that eternal city in which we may walk without ever once dreaming of poverty. Rich indeed we will then be. May the God of Heaven help us faithfully to work in his vineyard, to spare no pains in setting forth to mankind in tract form the wonderful things that we behold out of the Bible.