p. 15 | An Invisible Leader

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 8, 1909

An Invisible Leader

SAUL started out to seek his father's asses, and found a kingdom. The treasurer of Candace, queen of Ethiopia, sought information in the prophecy of Isaiah, and found personal salvation. The disciples went out to fish, and found the Son of God. How often God leads us by some secular incentive to the place where he has a blessing of an entirely different nature awaiting us! Little did Saul of Tarsus dream, when he started for Damascus, what would happen to him before his return. When Elisha hitched his oxen to the plow, little did he know that before they were unyoked in the evening, the mantle of God's prophet would be placed upon his own shoulders. Little did Gideon know, when he went out to thresh wheat in the wine-press of the Abiezrite, that he would there meet with the angel of Jehovah, and be appointed a judge over Israel. How often in the commonplaces of life we meet with God! It is on the way to Gaza; it is on the road to Emmaus; it is by some bush in the desert, or on some quiet evening in the sheepfold, or when we are pruning our trees. Often it is that the every-day vocations of life have the richest spiritual blessings. He who honestly and faithfully performs his work will invariably find a treasure hid in the field; when he comes to the well, he will find a Saviour sitting on the curb.—United Presbyterian.