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Efficiency Through Service
God will accomplish a great work through the truth if devoted,
self-sacrificing men will give themselves unreservedly to the work
of presenting it to those in darkness. Those who have a knowledge
of the truth and are consecrated to God should avail themselves of
every opportunity to proclaim the message for this time. Angels of
God are moving upon the hearts and consciences of the people of
other nations, and honest souls are troubled as they witness the signs
of the times in the unsettled state of the nations. The inquiry arises
in their hearts, What will be the end of all these things?
But while God and angels are working to impress hearts, the
servants of Christ seem to be asleep. Few are working in unison
with the heavenly messengers. All who are Christians should be
workers in the vineyard of the Lord. They should be wide-awake,
zealously laboring for the salvation of their fellow men, and should
follow the example that the Saviour has given them in His life of
self-denial, sacrifice, and earnest effort.
God has honored us by making us the depositaries of His law,
and if ministers and people were sufficiently aroused they would
not rest in indifference. We have been entrusted with truths of vital
importance which are to test the world, and yet in our own country
there are cities, villages, and towns that have never heard the warning
message.
Young men are aroused by the appeals that are made for help in
the great work of God, and they make some advance moves; but the
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burden does not rest upon them with sufficient weight to lead them
to accomplish what they might. They are willing to do a small work
which does not require special effort. Therefore they do not learn
to place their whole dependence upon God and by living faith draw
from the great Source of light and strength, that their efforts may
prove wholly successful.
Young men should be qualifying themselves for service by be-
coming familiar with other languages, that God may use them as
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