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The Christian Shovel

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 16, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 3.

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The Christian Shovel

The Christian is to bear witness for God everywhere, everywhen. In business as well as in the sermon, in the shop or store as well as in the church, in trading and making as well as at the family altar, is he to witness for God. Dr. Louis Albert Banks, in his “Seed Thoughts for Public Speakers,” tells of a friend of his who went into a store in Philadelphia to buy a shovel. In testing one he asked the dealer, “Is this a first-class shovel?” The dealer replied: “My friend, I think you can know very little of shovels. You will notice that this shovel is made by ——. He is a Christian man, sir, and he makes a Christian shovel; and anything you see marked with his name you may know to be first-class—just what it claims to be.” That is the stamp that every Christian ought to put upon his work. Let every man in that calling wherein he is found abide with God. So do God’s children magnify Him.