MEN FOR THE HOUR by Daniel March

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 24, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 12.

MEN FOR THE HOUR.

By Daniel March

IN all times of great public exigency, God raises up men and fits them to do his work. Sometimes the age most needs an earnest and alarming voice that shall cry day and night in the city and the wilderness, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord." Sometimes there are wanted men of action, whose silent and ceaseless energy is the voice with which they arouse and shake the nations. Sometimes there is need of men with the courage of heroes and the faith of martyrs, to hew down the thrones and temples of iniquity with the stroke of battle-axes, and to meet the armed forces of wrong on the bloody field. Sometimes the world's great want is the embodiment of active benevolence, the incarnation of pity and humanity, to carry light into the dark homes of sorrow, to speak peace and pardon in the dens and dungeons of vice and crime. Whatever the want of any age, God is sure to find men to meet its demands. It should be our great study to know what work he has for us to do, and to do it well.—Rev. Daniel March, D. D.