p. 166 | CONTACT WITH MEN.-

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 4, 1873

CONTACT WITH MEN.—

The man who does not go out among his fellow-men enough to permit the rains and dews of sympathy to fall upon him, is predestined to a hopeless dryness; and dryness is generally caused by the want of variety and newness in the application of truth. A thousand times better be personal than to run to the other extreme of perpetually hitting at the Pharisees. They have been killed a million times before. Here was the great power of our earlier ministry. It was neither distinguished by learning nor adorned by elegance, but it struck home with an affectionate, manly earnestness to the personal, present life of their hearers. And, to-day, while we lack not the old truths, we need newness in individuality, in illustration, and application.