July 25

Christian, awake

“Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light” (Eph 5:14).
“Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion” (Isa. 52:1).
“And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed” (Rom. 13: 11).

How can a Christian sleep in such an age as ours? When life grows grander every year, by the increased knowledge and extended facilities for achieving great results for God and humanity! When so many harvest fields of labor invite the sturdy arm and glowing heart! When the wails of a world’s sorrow rise on every gale! To sleep through such a period of the world’s history is a fearful crime. Truly it is a sin against Heaven, to have no pulse that beats in palpitations of an age which trembles with the footsteps of an advancing God.
—Theodore Cuyler


To be alive in such an age—
To live in it,
To give in it!
Rise, soul, from thy despairing knees.
What if thy lips have drunk the lees?
Fling forth thy sorrows to the wind,
And link thy hope with humankind!
The passion of a larger claim
Will put thy puny grief to shame.

It is our work to arise; God will make us stand.
—Catherine Booth.

It is not once in a hundred times that a lazy man ever becomes a Christian. There is but little hope for the man who has nothing to do.
—De Witt Talmage.

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