p. 1 | Work for Christ by T. L. Cuyler

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 28, 1871

Work for Christ.

By T. L. Cuyler

Work for Christ! This is the best cure for a spiritual invalid in the church. Work develops a man's spiritual proportions. Work makes a Christian sinewy to carry burdens, broad-shouldered to bear responsibilities, strong-voiced to sing God's praise, quick-footed to do good, and healthful in the pulse-beat of his piety. I seldom have known of a good worker giving his pastor the heartache, or making trouble in the church. I never knew a warm-hearted worker to freeze up a prayer-meeting. I am never afraid to offer such a man a subscription paper. It is the lazy professors, the people who ride on cushioned seats in the church-car, and mistake that orthodox luxury for a personal advance in grace—these are the people who are the trouble and torment of themselves and of their minister. It is easier to be the pastor of a thousand workers than of ten drones. The sight of a dying church, or even a dull one, wears harder on a pastor than the most arduous toil for a living and growing church. It is not what we do, but what we fail to do, that wears us out.—Rev. T. L. Cuyler.