{"id":3797,"date":"2008-12-16T12:26:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T17:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/ch-spurgeon\/ecclesiastes-116-2"},"modified":"2008-12-16T12:26:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T17:26:04","slug":"ecclesiastes-116-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2008\/12\/16\/ecclesiastes-116-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclesiastes 11:6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“In the evening withhold not thy hand.” 
              — Ecclesiastes 11:6 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the evening of the day opportunities are plentiful: men return from
their labour, and the zealous soul-winner finds time to tell abroad the
love of Jesus. Have I no evening work for Jesus? If I have not, let me
no longer withhold my hand from a service which requires abundant
labour. Sinners are perishing for lack of knowledge; he who loiters may
find his skirts crimson with the blood of souls. Jesus gave both his
hands to the nails, how can I keep back one of mine from his blessed
work? Night and day he toiled and prayed for me, how can I give a
single hour to the pampering of my flesh with luxurious ease? Up, idle
heart; stretch out thy hand to work, or uplift it to pray; heaven and
hell are in earnest, let me be so, and this evening sow good seed for
the Lord my God. <\/p>\n

The evening of life has also its calls. Life is so short that a morning
of manhood’s vigour, and an evening of decay, make the whole of it. To
some it seems long, but a four-pence is a great sum of money to a poor
man. Life is so brief that no man can afford to lose a day. It has been
well said that if a great king should bring us a great heap of gold,
and bid us take as much as we could count in a day, we should make a
long day of it; we should begin early in the morning, and in the
evening we should not withhold our hand; but to win souls is far nobler
work, how is it that we so soon withdraw from it? Some are spared to a
long evening of green old age; if such be my case, let me use such
talents as I still retain, and to the last hour serve my blessed and
faithful Lord. By his grace I will die in harness, and lay down my
charge only when I lay down my body. Age may instruct the young, cheer
the faint, and encourage the desponding; if eventide has less of
vigorous heat, it should have more of calm wisdom, therefore in the
evening I will not withhold my hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In the evening withhold not thy hand.”                — Ecclesiastes 11:6 In the evening of the day opportunities are plentiful: men return fromtheir labour, and the zealous soul-winner finds time to tell abroad thelove of Jesus. Have I no evening work for Jesus? If I have not, let meno longer withhold my hand from a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}