They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait by William Robertson Nicoll

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 15, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 39.

They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait

By William Robertson Nicoll

SOME of God's hired servants are called upon not to work, but to wait. A poor old sister in the work-house waited for orders from Christ, and could only hear him saying, "Lie still and cough." Many are called upon to glorify God in lives of meek submission spent upon sick beds, on the edge of the grave. Let them not murmur. "They also serve who only stand and wait." It is not theirs to turn with the thousands who speed over sea and land to do the Lord's bidding; but by their saintly patience, their constant trust, their joyful unworldliness, they may be made an abiding blessing. And doubtless great reward will come to them in the day when the meek shall inherit the earth, and the merciful shall obtain mercy.—Rev. W. R. Nicoll.