p. 12 | THE FIELD IS THE WORLD

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 17, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 45.

"THE FIELD IS THE WORLD."

"WAIT till our own the gospel have received, For with our own we surely must begin." "Begin and finish?" "Well, that work achieved, We shall have leisure to call others in. 'Go to all nations'—somewhere we allow— 'Beginning at Jerusalem,' means now."

"And yet, methinks, the two commissions blend With one another, in distinctive force. 'Go to all nations' was the appointed end, 'Beginning' only pointed out the course. Beginning only, if we wait to show One work completed, we shall never go."

And this, then, is our lesson. Every day We find some work which we must not refuse, And we must do such work as best we may; Yet must we never quote it to excuse Our cold neglect of Christ's supreme command, "Go forth and preach my name in every land." —Selected.