What Opportunity Means by A. T. Pierson

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 31, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, Nos. 43, 44.

What Opportunity Means

By A. T. Pierson

Surely God has set before us open doors in Asia, Africa, South America, papal Europe, and the islands of the sea. And opportunity means responsibility. Wo to us if the Laodicean lukewarmness and indifference make the Philadelphian privilege and duty to be lightly esteemed and practically neglected. Never had the church a louder trumpet peal ringing in her ears, saying, "Occupy till I come!" Men are needed, money is needed, but above all prayer is needed; for while neither men nor money will fill the gap if prayer be lacking, true prayer will compel men to offer both themselves and their substance. There is no place where a lack of self-surrender and of true liberality is so mercilessly exposed as in the closet of secret communion! — The late A. T. Pierson.