Article January 30, 1915 Issue

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with contributions from J. Bruce Wallace, Harold E. Brierley

[Zion's Herald]

Let us often turn in our Bibles to the passage where Paul says that he plants and Apollos waters, but God gives the increase. In this day there are so many who, if they would plant at all, would do it hurriedly. And then they would turn impatiently to the reaping, overlooking entirely the watering process. It seems to be the spirit of the age to demand results, and that right quickly. If no vision of accomplishment appears upon our little horizon, our courage ebbs away, and we say that God's Word is losing its hold upon men,—forgetting, the while, that a thousand years in God's sight are but as yesterday.

What we should keep in mind is that all cannot be reapers. There are those who must plant and those who must water, and they should perform their God-given work with a gentleness of spirit and a thoroughness that will implant the Word so firmly that the reapers, when God sends them, will rejoice at the abundance of the harvest, and will praise God for the lives of those who have planted and who have watered so lovingly. Our devotion for the Master cannot be too loyal, our faith in the great commission cannot be too strong, and our concern for our fellow men cannot be too compelling, for the noble work of planting and watering in the Lord's vineyard. It demands our best,—our faith, our love, our courage, our hope, our patience. And above all it demands a sweet and willing and undiscouraged spirit, which is content to labor and to pray at a work where the finished fruit is seldom seen.

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