Feed My Lambs

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 25, 1883

an organic law and a fundamental basis!" It is quite doubtful whether the children duly realized their wants. Said another good minister to the children, "I will now give you a summary of what I have been saying." Here the children's pastor hinted in a whisper, that "summary" was too hard a word. "Your pastor tells me," continued the orator, "that you do not understand the meaning of summary. Summary, my little friends, is an abbreviated synopsis."

Do not feed the little ones from the empty spoon of high-sounding words. That is far from following the Master's direction, "Feed my lambs." If you have no good, earnest word that will come home with power to their souls, keep silent, and do not take up golden moments that others might use with profit to perishing souls.

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