Faith for Effective Service

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 29, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 5.

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Faith for Effective Service

"If God be for us who can be against us?" Mr. Moody says, in illustration of the faith-filled man's effectiveness in real service: "Shamgar was plowing in his field; a frightened man came running over the hill, crying; 'Shamgar, the Philistines are coming. There are six hundred of 'em.' 'All right,' says Shamgar; 'you pass on, I'll take care of them. They are four hundred short; for one shall chase a thousand, and there are only six hundred of them.' And Shamgar went and finished them up with his ox-goad." That is the sort of faith for a returned backslider, or for a new convert; and that is the way to show it. But the quaint suggestion of Mr. Moody is, "Nowadays it seems to take a thousand to fight one;" because of scant faith.
—Sel.