The Harvest and the Labourers: The Sermon Before the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in Trinity Church, in the City of New York, on Wednesday, October 5th, 1853 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Harvest and the Labourers: The Sermon Before the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in Trinity Church, in the City of New York, on Wednesday, October 5th, 1853

This twice coupling of the sending, on the Lord's part, and the praying on our part, as if he would no more send without our prayers than the harvest can have labourers without his providing them, and all this so emphatically engraven on the first commission of the ministry, should impress us most deeply with the essential importance of the duty enjoined. We cannot doubt that what the Lord then said to his little flock, he now says from heaven, by the Spirit, to all his present Church. Is the harvest less great and plenteous in his sight, now that he looks down from the throne of his glory upon the millions and millions of this world who are as sheep having no shepherd? Is the compassion of his heart for such want and woe any the less since he died to save sinners, and ascended to make intercession for them? Will he any more separate his sending from our praying, now that there are so many who know the efficacy of prayer, through his intercession, than when once an upper room contained all his disci ples? If the original charge, Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature, is as fresh and binding on the whole present Church as when first spoken by the Lord, how can we now hear it, without a most impressive view of the greatness of the work committed to the Church, or without feel ing most painfully how few there are to do it; that all the hope of that work is in God; that the send ing of the men is all with him, and the calling upon(6)

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