THE K I N G ' S BUS I NE S S some wise sayings and one of them is, “The good is a great enemy of the best.” That is to say, good things crowd out the best things. We should be on our guard that we use every moment of our time not merely in doing good things hut in doing the best things. This, of course, does not mean that we shall not take time for rest and sleep. Rest and sleep are the very best use to which we can put some of our hours. It does not mean that we should never seek recrea tion, for recreation oftentimes is re-crea tion, and by putting a half hour into exercise or other recreation we may put new power into whole hours or days. But it is not enough that we avoid waste of time, we should make every moment of time count to the uttermost. Conclusion: To sum up all that I have said this morning, make this one of the great governing mottoes of your life: “I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do" and to that end, form today— if' you have formed it already put new decision into it—the conscious and defin ite purpose to glorify God by finishing the work which He has given you to do. Seek earnestly and honestly to find out what the work is that God has given you to do, make an absolute surrender to God, to be wholly His, seek to obtain a definite baptism with the Holy Spirit for the service to which God has called you, be men and women of prayer, continue to be earnest daily students of the Word, and make every moment of life count to the uttermost. And now I am to stay farewell to the members of the Graduating Class. This is the last time that I shall have the privilege of addressing most of you at all. I want to tell you before you go that I love you. I do not think that there has been another class that has gone out from the Institute toward which I have had just the same feeling that I have toward this class. Some of you have been so near to me that you almost seem as if you were my own children, and
941 when I come back next Fall and you are not in your accustomed seats I shall miss you. If you were to go down to the lec ture room this morning and take your usual seats, I could be led into that lec ture room blindfolded and I could tell just where most of you were seated. And when next Autumn I stand on the plat form and look out upon the seats that you now occupy and see new faces there I cannot tell you how much I shall miss you. But I am glad you are going, for God needs you in various fields in the world, in China and Africa, South Amer ica and elsewhere. We shall not meet again here on earth but the glad day is hastening on when we shall meet, meet in the air, in that glorious hour when the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, 'with the voice of the archangel and the trump of Go
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