Morsels by PHILIP GIDDINGS

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 25, 1912

Morsels

By PHILIP GIDDINGS

PHILIP GIDDINGS

“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see”—What? See light? No!—“your good works.” Let your faith so shine that men may see your faith?—No! your good works. Your faith is to shine upon your good works, and your good works reflect back the faith in exact image of those works. Let your creed so shine before men that they may see your deed,—see your creed in deed form,—and be led to glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Sign to duty, and whatever difficulty comes, do not resign, but re-sign. Repeat the resolution. Like a postage-stamp well mucilaged, stick fast to your letter till you arrive at your destination. And when you have the will, God will open the way. However thick or high the wall that would turn you aside from duty, go through or leap over.

Quit yourselves like men; don’t quit being men. The difficulty of the task is to prove sincerity, prove faculty, and classify result. Repeat not the terrible mistake of some who knew not the time of their visitation when they said, “Away!” to what was the only way.

We are marching to one of two opposite ends,—the goal or the gaol,—the winning-post, or the whipping-post. You and I will finally hear, “Come, ye blessed,” or “Depart from me, ye cursed.” Which it shall be then is being decided now by you and me.

Though we have prayed, preached, and prophesied, it will be of no avail unless we practise the ways of God. Unless we practise as we preach, and have our works in harmony with our prayers, we shall find disappointment instead of reward. We have prayed out, preached out, prophesied out,—not in,—and “truth in the inward parts” we had not. It was all out, and out we shall be at last.

It is possible to preach others into the kingdom, and preach ourselves out,—make of ourselves castaways.

Roseau, Dominica, West Indies.