"Pray Ye to the Lord of the Harvest."

 
An Extract from a Letter.
“I desire too to stir up all those who are spiritually interested in the Gospel as a testimony flowing from God, whether they be old or young, men or women, English, or French, or German, &c., to join in prayer for the sounding out of the word throughout the world. If the Lord will graciously pour out a spirit of prayer and supplication, (surely I would say to all who love Him, the desire that He may do so is yours and mine, and the promise is to the prayer of two or three,) expectation of blessing will spring up, and bear fruit too. The Isles I have named (West India Isles), Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and the East Indies are on my heart.
“Nor you nor I could send any one, even if any were ready to go, but we know the Lord of the harvest, and gladly shall we welcome His answers to prayer, and seek to comfort ourselves, and any whom He may incline to go. When Isaiah had had his iniquity taken away and his sin purged (chapter 6:7), he heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ (verse 8.) His ready answer was, ‘Here am I; send me.’ Oh that that voice which speaks in every pardoned soul who loves the Gospel, ‘Who will go for us?’ were more simply heard and obeyed, as by Isaiah of old! The night is now far spent, the dawn draws nigh; the testimony as to Christ should go forth everywhere and from every one of His, testimony as to Him in His past, in His present, in His coming service to God, and as to man.
“How few addict themselves now-a-days to the ministry of the saints. (2 Cor. 16:15.) How few having believed, therefore speak (2 Corinthians 4:1313We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; (2 Corinthians 4:13)); compare Acts 8:4,4Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word. (Acts 8:4) ‘they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word.’
“If, as I trust, it is God who puts these thoughts and desires upon my soul, I may stay myself upon Him, and hope as to blessing to come. The Son is to be preached everywhere, the Spirit works towards this, and will work; and is there no chaste virgin espoused to Christ? It is written, ‘And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.’ (Revelation 22:1717And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. (Revelation 22:17).)
“Pray. — None who can pray can say, ‘As for me I can do nothing in this matter.’ That the service in this testimony requires men in Christ, and not babes, is true. But there are evangelists who have been tried, and approved themselves in their work; let them bethink themselves of their work.”
THE witness on earth of this world’s guilt is the presence of the Holy Ghost.
You will never be separate from the world by trying.
When a man is dead, he is not of the world. We are “dead with Christ.”
Christendom practically denies two things, the presence of the Holy Ghost on earth, and the absolute judgment of the world.