HARVEST

The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 20, 1879

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 54, No. 21

“The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.” Matt. 9:38.

The harvest is great, but laborers few, And work abounds for all to do; Why, then, stand idling all the day, While wasting moments glide away, And multitudes, who might be fed, Are perishing from lack of bread? If late, at once thy work begin, And make no compromise with sin.

Before the evening shades appear, Before the night of death draws near, The smallest service for your Lord Can never lose the sure reward. Though late, still hear the Master say, The eleventh hour receives its pay; Then what thy hand doth find to do, Delay not, but at once pursue.

—Selected.