"The Day"

I absolutely love this taken from Adoniram Judson after burying his wife in the mission field:

"Great is our privilege, precious our opportunity, to co-operate with the Savior in the blessed work of enlarging and establishing His kingdom throughout the world...

Let us not then, regret the loss of those who have gone before us and are waiting to welcome us home, nor shrink from the summons that must call us thither. Let us only resolve to follow them who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises. Let us so employ the remnant of life, and so pass away, that our successors will say of us, as we our predecessors, "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord. They rest from their labours, and their works do follow them."

"That Day" is drawing near! Today is our day to work. How I pray that our generation will not be caught unawares when "the Day" comes. I pray that our works will follow us. Let us fill our days with good deeds, for this is God's will will the Gospel."