Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-01-03
what Constitutes Missionary wOrka

Knowing ones duty and fulfilling
! it to the best of ones ability may be
said to be the chief factor of mission
airy work. Every duty omitted OBJ
ScureS some truth that we should
know. Diligence, industry and proper
improvement of time are also great
factors of this work.
Neither idleneSS nor labor without
an aim will produce fruit that the
world will purchase at first cost. Buy
up each moment as you go. Sow love,
peace and sunbeams that you may
reap a rich harvest of the brightest
fruit. There is no luxury like doing
good. Every good word spoken in this
world, every sweet song sung, every
holy thought or impulse of blessing
started, shall go on and on until the
end of all things. The things we do
for Christ here, the Inspirations we
put into immortal lives, the lessons
we teach, the influences of good we
start, shall not die with US. Such
help as we can give each other in this
world is a debt to each other; and the
man who perceives a superiority or
capacity in subordinate and neither
confeSseS it nor assists it, is not mere
ly the withholder of a kindness, but
the conmitter of an injury.
Do not put off visiting a sick friend.
What seems short time to you may
mean a long time to them. Give the
kind word that is needed, the smile
that cheers. Speak kind words, for
who can tell the blessings they i'm
part. How oft they fall as mamma
fell on some poor fainting heart.
A good deed is never lost. Sow
courtesy, reap friendship; plant kind
ness and gather love. Every kind act
is flower that will beautify our final
home. 1t is a grand, good thing to
know when to speak the word that
heals. Yet it is not always what we
say as the manner in which we say it.
The words may be mild and fair, but
the tones may pierce the heart.
Reverence that which is best in the
universe, and this is that which
makes use of all things and directs all
that which is best in myself Make
use of the power of persuasion rather
t1an argument. Religious argument
oftener awakens prejudice, pride and
antagOniSm, than it brings opponents
oveI to our way of thinking. Just as
the sunbeam is a more powerful fac
tor in nature than the cyclone so per-
suasion is mightier than argument.
Seek not your mission DER all the ex-
tended territory of this world, but
find it at home. The field lies before
you, around you, and yours is the
hand that shall open that fields prec-
iouS mine. Whether it is the green
fields of the country or the Slums of
the city that shall claim you, that
claim is thy missions loud CALL Op-
portunities may be lost while you are
seeking your lifework in some distant
vineyard. Do the duty that lies near
est thy hand.
But do not look for immediate re-
suits. Immediate results are not
worth looking for. History is long, is
slow, but the clock keeps ticking and
the brook keeps flowing. Our business
is not to build quickly, but to build
upon a right foundation, and in a |
right spirit. Life is more than a |
mere competition as between man and |
man; it is not who can be done first, |
but who can work the best. 1t is not |
who can rise highest in the shortest |
lint &c h
tiently and lovingly in accordance
with the designs of God. Do some
thing and do it in straight line; per-
haps you may not get to finish, but |
there will be someone to take your |
place. Did not the spirit of Christ |
power to complete what their ascend |
ed Lord began?
1t is famous saying of Aristotle's |
that man has the social instinct plant |
ed in him by nature. The meaning
of this saying is that men tend to live |
together and depend upon one anoth-
er. In all ages and countries we find |
them sharing a more or less common |
life. They cannot make progress, be
happy, or in the end even exist other
wise. The individual when isolated
is not self-suficient and, therefore, he
is like part in relation to the whole.
We are SO dependent upon each other
in this world that the person who
starts out with the intention of stand
ing alone, never putting himself I'M
der obligations to anyone, must either
live the life of a hermit or break his
resolve. Everyone. however humble.