Power for Service
What the church needs in these days of peril is an army of workers
who, like Paul, have educated themselves for usefulness, who have a
deep experience in the things of God, and who are filled with earnest-
ness and zeal. Sanctified, self-sacrificing men are needed,—men who
will not shun trial and responsibility; men who are brave and true; men
in whose hearts Christ is formed “the hope of glory,” and who, with
lips touched with holy fire, will “preach the word.” For want of such
workers the cause of God languishes, and fatal errors, like a deadly
poison, taint the morals and blight the hopes of a large part of the
human race.—
The Acts of the Apostles, 507
.
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Those who are men in the sight of God, and who are thus recorded
in the books of heaven, are those who, like Daniel, cultivate every
faculty in such a way as best represents the kingdom of God to a world
lying in wickedness. Progress in knowledge is essential; for when
employed in the cause of God, knowledge is a power for good. The
world needs men of thought, men of principle, men who are constantly
growing in understanding and discernment. The press is in need of
men to use it to the best advantage, that the truth may be given wings
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to speed it to every nation, and tongue, and people.
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“Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come
in,” Christ bids us, “that My house may be filled.” [
Luke 14:23
.] In
obedience to this word we must go to the heathen who are near us, and
to those who are afar off. The “publicans and the harlots” must hear
the Saviour’s invitation. Through the kindness and long-suffering of
His messengers, the invitation becomes a compelling power to uplift
those who are sunken in the lowest depths of sin.
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