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Christian Zeal
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be the good you have accomplished. Not a soul will be saved by
your instrumentality. Will the Master say to you: “Well done, thou
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good and faithful servant”? What have you been doing faithfully?
Hard work in the business and cares of this life. Will this bring from
the lips of Christ the gracious words: “Well done, thou good and
faithful servant”?
My brother, Jesus loves you, and He invites you to face
rightabout, and take your eyes from the earth, and fix them upon
the mark for the prize of your high calling, which is in Christ Jesus.
Cease lightness and trifling. Let a solemn weight of the time in
which we live be borne by you till the war is over. Go to work; if
consecrated to God, your influence will tell.
Most of the family of Brother G are in the downward road. H
lives an aimless life. She is full of folly, vanity, and pride. Her
influence does not tend to ennoble, does not lead to goodness and
holiness. She does not like the restraint which religion imposes;
therefore she will not yield her heart to its sacred sway. She loves
self, loves pleasure, and is seeking for her own enjoyment. Sad,
sad indeed will be the result, unless she now turns square about and
seeks for genuine godliness. She might exert a softening, ennobling,
and elevating influence over her brothers. God loves these children,
but they are not Christians. If they would try to live humble Christian
lives, they could become children of the light and workers for God;
they could be missionaries in their own family and among their
associates.
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