KEEP AT YOUR WORK

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 7, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 27.

KEEP AT YOUR WORK.

HAS GOD given you work to do? then keep at it. Others may disapprove and criticise you; keep at your work. Obstacles may be cast in your way; keep at your work. Men may ask you to surrender your work to other hands; keep at your work. Persons may wish to co-operate till they co-operate everything out of your hands and into their own; keep at your work. Men may threaten to hinder if you do not come under their rule—let them hinder; keep at your work.

If God has given you a work to do, He will give you strength to do it, and will bless you in the doing of it. Many a good man has allowed his work to be taken from his hands, and wrecked by incompetent men, who never could or would begin such work themselves, but seem on the watch to capture and control what others have begun. Many a man has idly wasted years of life and work by surrendering work which God had given him, into the hands of men whom God had neither called nor qualified to undertake it. Many a man has been obliged to stand by and see his work neglected or wrecked by men who were paid to attend to it, feeling that he could not regain and resume it without a struggle, which might result in trouble and defeat. Let the man of God beware in season. Let him receive his work and his charge from his Master, and let him do the work God has given him until that Master bids him rest from his labors. Let others object, suggest, propose, or oppose, if they will, but thou, O man of God, keep at thy work!—The Armory.