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tion will accomplish. Living faith will prompt to energetic action. The
spirit manifested by the leader will be, to a great extent, reflected by
the people. If the leaders professing to believe the solemn, important
truths that are to test the world at this time, manifest no ardent zeal to
prepare a people to stand in the day of God, we must expect the church
to be careless, indolent, and pleasure-loving.—
Christian Service, 177
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When God Calls to Larger Responsibilities—There are many
who are in such haste to climb to distinction that they skip some of
the rounds of the ladder, and in so doing lose experience which they
must have in order to become intelligent workers. In their zeal, the
knowledge of many things looks unimportant to them. They skim over
the surface, and do not go deep into the mine of truth, thus by a slow
and painstaking process gaining an experience that will enable them
to be of special help to others.—
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and
Students, 476
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Those who are humble, and who do their work as unto God, may
not make so great a show as do those who are full of bustle and self-
importance; but their work counts for more. Often those who make a
great parade call attention to self, interposing between the people and
God, and their work proves a failure....
If any are qualified for a higher position, the Lord will lay the
burden, not alone on them, but on those who have tested them, who
know their worth, and who can understandingly urge them forward. It
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is those who perform faithfully their appointed work day by day, who
in God’s own time will hear His call, “Come up higher.”
While the shepherds were watching their flocks on the hills of
Bethlehem, angels from heaven visited them. So today while the
humble worker for God is following his employment, angels of God
stand by his side, listening to his words, noting the manner in which
his work is done, to see if larger responsibilities may be entrusted to
his hands.—
The Ministry of Healing, 477
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Common Men May Become Great Men—The first pupils of
Jesus were chosen from the ranks of the common people. They were
humble, unlettered men, these fishers of Galilee; men unschooled
in the learning and customs of the rabbis, but trained by the stern
discipline of toil and hardship. They were men of native ability and
of teachable spirit; men who could be instructed and molded for the
Saviour’s work. In the common walks of life there is many a toiler