Hastening the Work by Eugene A. Brown

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 4, 1914

Hastening the Work

By Eugene A. Brown

When the Lord directs, how quickly and easily undertakings are completed! Down in the Imperial Basin, Cal., below sea level, tent meetings were held at El Centro, and in March a church was organized. A desirable corner lot had been donated, valued at from $700 to $800, facing ten acres of parking inclosing an unusually beautiful high school building. During April, Brethren C. L. Snodgrass and John Knox, with the writer, began soliciting the business men for funds to build. The town was already overdone with church solicitation. But the Lord helped. Hearts and pocketbooks flew open. Three weeks later the church was built, painted, and paid for. About $800 was secured in cash, and several hundred dollars' worth of skilled labor was donated.

It is evident that we have not only reached the day of swift movements, but the movement in which we are involved has the right of way, and we should expect surpassing success. The traffic officers are the angels of heaven. Their instructions are to clear the way for the appointed final work of the church. The King's business requires haste. The living God is able to make a short work in the earth. Those of faith are in the ranks that move forward. We praise the Lord for his abundant mercies.

Eugene A. Brown.