Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: you Church workers are seeking to do, and to do better and better. Hunger, thirst of body or spirit, strangerhood, nakedness, sickness, some kind of bondage or danger or distress, these are your opportunities.
Unto Me. That is the motive. It is by keeping nearer to Christ, and so having Him nearer to you, more in your thoughts, more in your hearts, that you grow and strengthen into real thoroughness. Whatever your other relationships, He says, you then become to Him sister or mother. Whether you minister to heathen far off or to sufferers near your door, the Christlike- ness must come out. It is told of Dan- necker, the German sculptor, that he worked eight years upon his statue of Christ. At the end of two years he called a little girl into his studio, and, pointing to the figure, asked, Who is that? The child replied,
Some great person. The artist turned away disheartened. I have failed, he said; I must begin anew. After two years of patient labor, he again brought the same child before the statue. Who is it now? After a long, silent gaze, she bowed her head in adoration and answered, It is He who said, Suffer the little children to come unto Me. Then Dannecker knew that his work was thorough. For this you will need a higher tone of personal spiritual life?a life unspotted from the world. The Godward life must be first; then out of that the charitable life, in the divine order. This your Lord will accept. This woman hath not ceased to kiss My feet.
Ye did it unto Me. Then the hand of God will be mighty upon us in blessing. Then your work will abide, whatever else passes away. Spiritual Helps And Failures In Keeping The Royal Law. SPIRITUAL HELPS AND FAILURES IN KEEPING THE ROYAL LAW. We have met in a common understanding that our object n…
