Work While It is Called To-day.
The Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, at his recent lecture related the following incident, which is worthy the attention of many Christians in our churches. Mr. Cook said :— “There is a story now in circulation in New York city concerning the younger Tyng, to the effect that his habit of making all the members of his church work, is occasionally distasteful to individuals among them. Not long ago a rich gentleman called upon Dr. Tyng in his study and told this valiant servant of reform that he wished to pay his church dues, and to have a good pew, but that he did not care to be put down on any committee, and that he was especially averse to having his wife and daughters sent into the slums to visit the poor and degraded. ‘Yes,’ said Dr. Tyng. ‘I see what you want, but you have come to the wrong place. Just around the corner is what you are looking for. There is the church of Heavenly Rest.’” In this world of sin and misery, of men perishing daily for want of knowledge; unsaved men near at hand, and in distant lands; who is there surveying a harvest-field so wide in which so few laborers are at work, can think of rest until the Lord of the harvest summons him to his reward?