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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 5, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 10.

LOAD THEM UP.

NOTICING over the chemist’s table a magnet which hung loaded with a collection of various tools and weights, I asked “What is the magnet doing?”

“I am loading it up,” the chemist answered. “It has been lying on the table, doing nothing and losing its power, so now I am giving it something to do a little more every morning, and it’s gaining, it’s growing stronger every day,” and he added a small file to the clump attached to the magnet.

“That’s the way,” he continued, “God makes magnets and men. If they loaf around and do nothing, they can’t do anything; they lose their force. But give them some work, and they’ll soon be good for more than you ever dreamed they could do. Magnetic power and muscles are developed by something to do; yes, and brains and souls of men. Some of those who are doing hard work and bearing heavy burdens will be doing grand things for the Master in His heavenly kingdom through the eternal years.”—Wellspring.