p. 508 | SEASONABLE OPERATIONS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 19, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 32.

SEASONABLE OPERATIONS.

IN operations of many sorts, success depends largely upon doing the right thing at the right time. Seasonableness is a factor which enters into all the other conditions and assumes a commanding place. When metals are being refined, it is all important to bring them to just a certain degree of heat, and to cease the application of this heat exactly at the proper time. In farming, the extent and quality of the crop will be found to depend not only on the soil and the seed, but also on the doing of certain things just when they ought to be done—plowing, harrowing, cultivating, cutting and shocking, and so forth—immediately when the opportunity is at hand. So too in religious work. Laborers for the Master must watch the signs of the seasons, and sow with all energy or seek to reap with all energy, according as the times indicate. In their hands is good seed, but to harvest the largest results, they must ever take advantage of the flood tide of opportunity. There is a time for the culture of the Christian life, but there are also times when persuasions to begin the Christian life must take the precedence.—The Moravian.