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Messages to Young People
No Time to Lose
Young men and women, you have no time to lose. Seek earnestly
to bring solid timbers into your character building. We beseech you
for Christ’s sake to be faithful. Seek to redeem the time. Consecrate
yourselves every day to the service of God, and you will find that you
do not need many holidays to spend in idleness, nor much money to
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spend in self-gratification. Heaven is watching for those who are seek-
ing to improve and to become molded to the likeness of Christ. When
the human agent submits to Christ, the Holy Spirit will accomplish a
great work for him.
Every true, self-sacrificing worker for God is willing to spend and
be spent for the sake of others. Christ says, “He that loveth his life shall
lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life
eternal.” By earnest, thoughtful efforts to help where help is needed,
the true Christian shows his love for God and for his fellow beings. He
may lose his life in service; but when Christ comes to gather His jewels
to Himself, he will find it again.—
The Youth’s Instructor, September
10, 1907
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The Reward of Sacrifice
The means used to bless others will bring returns. Riches rightly
employed will accomplish great good. Souls will be won to Christ. He
who follows Christ’s plan of life will see in the courts of God those
for whom he has labored and sacrificed on earth. Gratefully will the
ransomed ones remember those who have been instrumental in their
salvation. Precious will heaven be to those who have been faithful in
the work of saving souls.—
Christ’s Object Lessons, 373
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