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The Glory of Drudgery

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 24, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 40, No. 15.

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The Glory of Drudgery.

PERSISTENT plodding is one of the fixed conditions of permanent success. Neither genius nor any other advantage can supplant it. For the “lucky” man is not he into whose lap drops a fortune or a windfall of what his fellows call glory, but rather he whom God leads step by step, through darkness to light, from rough places to smooth, up the long hill of discipline to the heights of peace.
Christian work is eminently of the sort which tests and toughens the soul by drafts upon its endurance. To persevere in the face of delays, discouragements, and reverses, is one of God’s foremost requirements. To be contented with his promise; to find in that sufficient return to sustain us in long watching and diligent working; to feel that dignity and preciousness are conferred upon the meanest details by the consecration of all to him—this is the glory of drudgery, and it is a real and lasting one.—Christian at Work.