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Excerpt from In the Vineyard: A Plea for Christian Work
The attention of believers is being drawn to the matter of christian Won]: as never before since the days of the apostles. It is high time. Nineteen cen tuties of our era have nearly gone, and yet the greater part of the world is lying in almost utter ignorance of the gospel and even in so-called Christian countries, most of the people are in an unconverted and perishing state. What a clarion-summons \in such facts! Is it being suficiently heeded? With all the gain lately made (and that it is very great let us joyfully confess), it is still true, that most professing Christians, even of those not unexemplary in other respects, are doing very little to spread the religion they accept. Only by courtesy can they be called laborer: in the vineyard. They are not even in the market-place, waiting for work. The Master is not yet done saying, The har vest truly is great, but the laborers are few: pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest.
The aim of this volume is altogether practical. It seeks to promote that active efiort in the cause of Christ which his law requires, and which the needs of a world in large part still lying in wickedness beg for with most affecting importunity, but which is still so insufficiently granted. And this end is sought, first, by the persuasion of illustrious examples, and, secondb', by such appeals, as, without a show of argument, but with all its substance, may present in an orderly and vivid manner the leading principles, methods, and te wards oi work in the Vineyard.
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