p. 11 | WAITING GOD'S TIME by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 10, 1900

WAITING GOD'S TIME.

By Editor

THIS is what the editor of the Sunday School Times quotes the veteran missionary of Zululand, Aldin Grout, as saying at a missionary gathering in 1858, of his early labors in South Africa—saying it "not despondently or sadly, but with a ringing, soldierly voice:

'I worked there as God gave me opportunity and ability for ten years, with various interruptions and intermissions, yet at the end of that period I could not point to a single convert in all the field in all the years; nor could I even point to a single one of my hearers of whom I could confidently say that he had been really interested or benefited by my message during all the time. Yet in all that time it never entered my head to doubt that I and my fellow-workers were where God had called us to labor, and were doing what God had set us to do. We were there giving God's message, sowing the seed of God's truth. It was for one to plant, for another to water, for God to give—or to withhold—the increase as seemed best to Him. Thirteen years added to that ten, have passed since then,' he said; 'there are now more than thirty Christian churches with hundreds of church-members in that apparently unfruitful field.' It is good to be in God's field and work, whatever the seeming results, for a time, may be."