“THOU WICKED AND SLOTHFUL SERVANT.”
By A. M. Whitaker
IN Matt. 25: 26, we find the above words addressed to the slothful servant. Let the inquiry come right home to your heart and mine. Are we doing all we can by precept and example and by sending our publications to those who are not keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus? Rev. 14: 12. Soon the Lord is coming to reckon with his servants. Jesus is our only correct pattern. He denied himself of the glories of Heaven for awhile, led a life of suffering here, and then gave his life a ransom for us, shall we withhold our influence and money, and let precious souls be lost? May God in his mercy to us forbid that we should be so slothful and unprofitable. We do not want to hear this decision, “Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matt. 15: 30. Let us arouse, wake up, and gird on the whole armor, and work with a zeal according to knowledge. Let us try to save some precious soul. The harvest is great and the laborers are few. “Time is almost finished.” If we can do but little, let us do all we can, while the Lord “waits to be gracious,” Isa. 30: 18, while there is mercy for the sinner, before the decree goes forth, “He that is unjust let him be unjust still.” Rev. 22: 11. The signs betoken the soon coming of our King. We should not place our affections on this world or on the things of the world. Let us work now each according to his ability, that we may hear the approval of Jesus, “Well done, good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” A. M. WHITAKER.