Men's Hearts Failing

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 29, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 22.

Men's Hearts Failing.

MR. STEAD told to a large audience in Boston how difficult he found it to get men of national standing to help forward the peace movement. One refused, saying, "No one has any faith any longer in this country, there is no use;" another refused, declaring, "I have not the courage to endure the sneers of the world at such an attempt—it is useless," while a third sadly uttered these words: "There is no use; nothing can be done; it was a great mistake that God made the world—if things keep on, the world will soon be too rotten to be worth damning." And thus men's hearts fail, and well they may, in the foolish attempt to reform and purify the world. That can never be done—God has never asked that it be done—that is not the end which the Lord seeks in this present dispensation. To undertake this is to depart from God's purpose and to secure defeat. This is the day of election—of securing a called-out people—an Ecclesia—and no man or devil can defeat that purpose of God. Ours is to preach the Gospel to all the world, and to every creature in the world, and to illustrate its principles while preaching. God will gather out those who believe and who become joined to the body of Christ by the reception of His life, in the power of the Holy Spirit.—Watchword and Truth.