A FAITH THAT WORKS by R. F. Cottrell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1879

A FAITH THAT WORKS.

By R. F. Cottrell

WHAT is demanded at the present time is a faith that works. As a people we are not doing what we ought to do. Our publications are the most efficient agents to spread the truth everywhere. Hence all may be efficient laborers in the cause. All things have been made ready, in the providence of God, so that all may be laborers that will. All can do something in the work of spreading the truth and saving men. Do you realize it? Or do you think it of no use to try? Are you discouraged because your past efforts are fruitless? Are your friends and neighbors callous to all your endeavors to do them good? Extend your efforts to a wider circle. In due time you shall reap, if you faint not.

The SIGNS OF THE TIMES should be sent in every direction. All can share in this work. Some can help pay for them that cannot do much more. Others can take the labor of scattering them, and finding interested readers, such as may be benefited. And frequently the bow that is drawn at a venture will hit the mark, though it may not be the mark that we aimed at. Well-directed efforts will not fail to accomplish good. Our labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Then let us press on and know no halting till the work is done, till the last sheaf is gathered in. Then what joy to the faithful worker when angels join with men in the shout of the “harvest home.”

Shall we not consecrate ourselves to the blessed work of saving souls? Let no one be contented to let these precious opportunities pass unimproved. Think, O think, that in a little while it will be too late,—the harvest past, redemption’s work all done, and the fiat gone forth, “He that is filthy, let him be filthy still. And, behold, I come quickly, to give to every man according as his work shall be.”

R. F. Cottrell.