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Our Ministers and the Morning Watch

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 14, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 62.

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Our Ministers and the Morning Watch

By Milton E. Kern

A MINISTER’S usefulness is measured by his power to win souls. Soul-winning ability comes from God, through prayer. Every true minister, then, keeps a daily appointment with God, and many have learned that the first hour of the day is the best. Isaiah learned this more than twenty-six hundred years ago. He said: “The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.”
Every minister, too, knows that success in the Christian life depends upon prayer; that it is absolutely necessary for every Christian to form the habit of prayer; that “time must be redeemed from things temporal, for meditation upon things eternal.”
Every minister may not yet know the great value of the Morning Watch Calendar in forming this all-important habit. Thousands of our people, young and old, in Europe, Africa, Australia, South America, India, China, Korea, and Japan, as well as in North America, are finding it so. A Bulgarian Red Cross nurse writes of the blessing its use has brought to her. A sister writes: “The verses of the Morning Watch are an inspiration to me, every one fitted for the day’s experiences and trials.” A gray-haired brother, a business man and church deacon, told of the blessings he had received in following the plan, and especially of the great benefit derived from “that verse which so many of our people throughout the world are reading and meditating upon at the same time.”
We wish to suggest that every minister make it a part of his business for 1917 to see that every new convert, and all the members of churches which he visits, are supplied with the Morning Watch Calendar. There are many people who desire it, but, because it is small, neglect to order it. If the minister has a package of Morning Watch Calendars when he comes, the people are very glad to buy them.
How often we hope and pray that the people will retain the blessings which they receive through our ministry! Is there any better way of helping to do a permanent work, than by introducing the Morning Watch? M. E. KERN.