A Continual Dropping Weareth a Stone

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 10, 1916

“A Continual Dropping Weareth a Stone”

THIS is a true saying. While it refers to the action of water upon stone, it applies to a general life principle. There is ever more virtue in steady, continuous application than in a stronger intermittent force. The plodders in life, as a rule, achieve the greatest success. The policy of the Scripture is, “Line upon line” and “precept upon precept,” rewarding those who “endure unto the end.” Constancy is an attribute of God. With him is no “variableness, neither shadow of turning.” It is the constant pressure of the tender rootlets that bursts the granite rock.

In the application of some of the most practical life principles, “the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.” They not only know the principles, but rely upon them in times of the greatest emergencies. We cite the following practical application of the principle of continuance in a municipal election:—

Recently the Socialists of the city of Milwaukee organized for a systematic distribution of their literature in that city. Their object was the election of a Socialist mayor. Four months before the time of election, they began to place their literature in every home in the city. Early every Sunday morning during the four months this literature was put under the front door of every home in the city. The Socialists elected their mayor. They knew the power of systematic, continuous effort. They knew the people had time to read on Sundays. They knew the regular appearance of this literature, though not wanted, would in time interest the people sufficiently to cause them to examine it. They knew conviction comes best and quickest when one quietly and leisurely reads or studies in one's own home. They knew the people in thousands of these homes would at first gather and immediately burn this literature without examining further than to learn it was Socialist matter. They also knew that its continued coming every Sunday would win it a hearing. In short, they knew the power of well-directed persistency, and they won.

If worldly men are wise and faithful in applying a natural life principle for the sake of temporal favors, ought not the children of light to be at least their equal in wisdom and effort for eternal interests?

Why not organize in every town, city, or community where we have a church, for regular, systematic, house-to-house delivery of the Present Truth Series on Saturday night or Sunday morning? The plan is sound. It meets all the natural tendencies of human nature, and with the special blessing always accompanying the message in printed form, it cannot fail of most gratifying results.

The regular coming of the Present Truth Series each week is a strong feature in the plan to send the series to relatives and friends, beginning September 1. With the united prayers of the churches for six months, and the weekly visits of these strong, irresistible, heaven-blessed messengers, there can be no failure.