Educated Workers by J. S. WASHBURN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 7, 1909

Educated Workers

By J. S. WASHBURN

With the exception of Jesus Christ, the two greatest characters of the Bible are Moses in the Old Testament and Paul in the New. It is true that God can use the simple and unlearned, and has often done so, but he found of the highest value in his great work the trained intellects of Moses and Paul.

Moses was learned in all the knowledge and skill of the most highly educated people upon the earth at that time. He was trained by the Egyptians to be a mighty general and a great king. This training, when united with humility and meekness, God used mightily in bringing his people out of Egypt and in building up his church in the earth. Moses was not only trained in worldly knowledge, but he was personally acquainted with the greatest Teacher in the universe. While others stood afar off and trembled when the mighty voice of God shook the earth, Moses went up into his presence, and talked with him face to face.

Paul, skilled in the highest learning of his time, and blessed with more of the gifts of the Spirit than any other of the disciples in the early church, was chosen by the Lord to take a leading part in preaching the gospel to “every creature under heaven” in his day. His wonderful writings, radiant with divine illumination, have come down to us through nineteen centuries as the mighty, incontrovertible arguments on the glorious topics of redemption, of righteousness by faith, of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, blazing with a mighty zeal, yet tender and sweet; argumentative, yet winning, polished, logical, unanswerable.

God desires to-day trained, zealous workers quickly to finish the proclamation of the last message to the world, to be fit representatives and forerunners of the coming King of kings.

J. S. WASHBURN.