Home Missionary Work
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Our churches should not feel jealous and neglected because they
do not receive ministerial labor. They should themselves rather take
up the burden and labor most earnestly for souls.
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Every talent in our churches should be employed in the work of
doing good. The rough places of nature, the wild places, God has
made attractive by placing beautiful things among the most unsightly.
This is the work we are called to do.
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We need in our churches youth who are working upon the Christian
endeavor principles, and the beginning must be made at home. The
faithful performance of home duties has a reflex influence upon the
character. In the father’s house is to be given the evidence of fitness
for work in the church.
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The Lord does not judge us according to the elevation of our
various spheres, but according to the faithfulness with which we fill
them.
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If we do but one third of that which we have entrusted talents to
do, the other two thirds are working against Christ.
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The greatest work that can be done in our world is to glorify God
by living the character of Christ.
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