...alive in not a few, if suitable means were employed, and continuous prayer offered. We are instructed "to pray the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth labourers into his harvest." It is to be feared that there is much neglect in this department which greatly needs repentance and...

...times, — "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few. Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest." But something more is required of us than our prayers. Baxter, after the pungent and faithfnl sentences...

...hopeless their task for want of labourers. They at least are of the number, who with all their hearts " pray the Lord of the Harvest that He would send forth labourers into His Harvest." The Second Circuit was not yet ended, and the greater part of Canaan still remained unvisited. By the...

...that of the means of instruction. The duty »rising from this fact is obvious ; it behoves churches to pray the Lord of the harvest that He would send forth labourers into His harvest ; but, while that is done, men of true piety and good sense, with some gift of speech, should bethink themselves...

...Your Bible teaches you to ' pray that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified;' to 'pray the Lord of the harvest, that He would send forth labourers into His harvest ;' ' whenever you pray, to say, Thy kingdom come ;' to ' give' the Lord ' no rest.' You hear the Lord...

...without a preacher? and how shall they preach, unless they be sent ?' Therefore Christ teacheth us to pray the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers unto his harvest, that is, sincere preachers. When we hear these preach the true word of God, we may...

...faithful men. Surely, then, under these circumstances it is time to remember the Master's injunction to " pray the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth labourers into his harvest." To these facts must be added another intimately connected with them, and still darkening the picture....

...them. Our missionaries are few, and there never was » time when it was more necessary for the Church " to pray the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth labourers into His harvest." I rejoice, that we have here at least one young man willing to offer himself upon the missionary altar....

...over and help us." "The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few ; " we therefore not only pray " the Lord of the harvest, that He would send forth labourers into His harvest," but we appeal for help to such as are willing to labour where superstition has wrought its most disastrous...

...encouraged and commanded us, in view of the vastness of the field and the insufficiency of the reapers, to " pray the Lord of the Harvest, that He would send forth labourers into His harvest." FOREIGN MISSIONS AND SUPPLY OF MISSIONARY CANDIDATES. THE HON. AND REV. CANON LYTTLETON. After a few...