SELECTED SENTENCES FROM MANY
Service
Jesus took more delight in finding a hungry soul than in partaking pf the daintiest meal. The way to get out of a humhle posi tion is to be conspicuously effective in .it. Many a little thing we cast to the ground is found to be a gem when another picks it up. A loafer in the church is of no more account than a loafer on the , street corner. A small man can make a big. job shrink to littleness, but it takes a big man to make a little job grow into a big one. A,doctor doesn’t fight the patient but the disease.' Don’t fight the sinner, hut sin. The man who does good cannot help but love his occupation. Count the days lost in which you have not tried to do something "for Jesus. It is better to do one little thing for God than to promise forty things you will never do. Always distrust a man whose love of humanity does not extend to Jesus Christ. Our grand business is not so much to see what lies dimly in the distance, as to do that which is clearly at hand. Service is love in working clothes. We shall have all eternity to cele brate the victories, but we have only a few hours before sunset to win them. Real service is working WITH the Lord, not FOR Him. Our blunders come mostly from let ting our wishes interpret our duties. He who would not serve God unless something he given him, would serve the devil if he would give him more.
He does much who does a little well. Secure not thyself in the conceit of not bringing forth evil fruit. A Chris tian is not defined by mere negatives. The talents with which the believer is entrusted are not to be laid up but laid out. Emotion is no substitute for action. We are saved to serve, but we never serve to be saved. - No one lacks for ways of doing good, but only for the inclination to do good. One day is as good as two for him who does everything in its place. Expect great things from God and attempt great things for God. Between the great things we can’t do and the little things we wont do, the chances are we will do nothing. When duty calls, some people are always out. A lot of church work is nothing but Chinese fireworks, warranted not to burn. If you’ve done no good that will live after you, you are not ready to die. God doesn’t ask for preachers for the harvest, but just for laborers. It is not a sin to work for one’s daily bread but it is a sin to work for nothing else. It is one of the beautiful compensa tions of life that no man can help another without helping himself. Some are so intent on looking for the big things that they do not see the little services that need to be rendered. It is better to say “This one thing I do” than to say “these forty things I dabble in.” . If we cannot do the good we would, we ought to do the good we can.
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