Good Pay by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 21, 1871

Good Pay.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

THERE is better pay than money can give, richer, sweeter, more enduring—the sense of having done some one some good. The other day I met a dear brother, who, with his family, had been led to give his heart to God, and break off his sins and bad habits, through my feeble efforts and the blessing of God. Years had passed since then. God and the truth had done much for him and his family. As we met, he threw his arms around me, and told me what God had done for him. Said he, “My home is a heaven.” What better pay could I want than that for my labors for him? Oh, how sweet it is to feel that you have made some soul happy! Yet how slow we are to engage in such work, work that pays so well and so surely. When we do a selfish deed, one that benefits us at another’s expense, how mean, how contemptible, how unhappy, we feel! Oh, for more of the disinterested love of Christ in our hearts! Is there a poor, unhappy, discontented soul that reads this? Go, and do some one some good, and the sunshine of joy will rise in your heart.

D. M. CANRIGHT.