Good Success by P. T. Magan

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 25, 1902

“Good Success”

By P. T. Magan

JESUS said, “Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit.”

God wants men and women to have great success in every work which they are undertaking for him. “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”

God wants the minister to win large numbers of souls to Christ and the church. He is pleased to have the Bible worker persuade many of her readers to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. God wants the canvasser to sell scores and hundreds of books, for every book left in a home is a blessing left there to yield precious fruit in later years.

It is no part of the plan of God that men should make a failure. It is not God’s will that any man’s work should be such that he should be obliged to leave a field of labor without some laurels of Christian victory crowning his effort. No, God desires the humiliation of no man. “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” He is “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” And as God longs to see us victorious in that which is the end and aim of all Christian effort, so also he desires us to be successful in every phase of Christian work which we undertake. “Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize?” But in the Christian race it is not so. Glory and success will crown the effort of every faithful runner.

We must ever remember that we are laborers together with God. We are God’s partners in the great work of redemption. And our Partner will never “fail nor be discouraged.”

Let there be no failure in our work with “Christ’s Object Lessons.” Above all other things in this work, we must never lose our first love. To begin a work, and then to drop it before it is completed, and before it has accomplished all that God designs it shall accomplish, is, in other words, to make a failure. Unfinished works are failures.

Dear brother, dear sister, have you sold only a part of your quota? Make an effort to sell the remainder, and see what a blessing will be yours.

This work was born in tears and prayers and sacrifices. It will end with triumphant success. Let us all choose to fight in its hard battles, to march on its long marches, to watch unto prayer in its darkest watches, and triumph in its jubilee. P. T. MAGAN.