CURSED LAZINESS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 29, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 48.

CURSED LAZINESS.

[From a sermon by Rev. John Muir.]

“Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord negligently.” I venture to think it would have been better if, instead of this Latin word “negligently,” our revisers had used its Anglo-Saxon equivalent, “lazily,” for I am sure that the word laziness is more widely and more thoroughly understood than the word negligence. Here, then, we find God, through His servant the prophet, denouncing and cursing laziness. And small wonder that it should be so. What think you is the greatest of all the obstacles which impede the progress of the kingdom of Christ? I will tell you. It is the negligence or laziness of its members. Look around upon the churches, in any direction you please, and what do you find? You find that whatever of work is done through their agency is done by few individuals.

But we need not individualize. The words apply to Christian people everywhere, whether officially recognized by the church or not, and they distinctly teach that a curse—and the curse (O, awful thought!) is the curse of God—that a curse shall overtake each and all who fail to put heart and soul into “the work of the Lord.”