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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 27, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 28, No. 26.

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Consistency.

By Jos. Clarke

BRO. CHEERFUL'S presence is like a sunbeam. Why! First, because he is consistent as a minister and as a Christian. His health being injured, he has set about repairing it; he measures his strength, and keeps within the bounds of moderation, and so he is gradually gaining. You cannot get him to preach if he is sick. And if he has only strength for one effort, he does not violate law by a second discourse; he considers “it a sin to be sick,” and so regulates his practice. Should he violate nature’s laws by overdoing, he would blush to tell you he had preached two sermons when he had hardly strength to preach one. He would then only record his own disobedience.
He knows the church needs all her ministers; and the life of one faithful minister is of countless value to God's people; hence the necessity of care. If a farmer or mechanic is taken away by death, a gap is made, and a small circle feel the loss; but the loss of a faithful minister, is felt by an extensive circle. It is as when a shepherd is taken from his flock.
Jos. CLARKE.