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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 31, 1874

A Fact.

MR. TALMAGE, in his paper, The Christian at Work, hits his target right in the center, when he says: “The church is yet to learn that its chief work is to be done by consecrated men of ordinary caliber. Great speeches never marshaled a host. An eminent Scotch divine getting into a pulpit after a week’s elaboration of a learned discourse forgot it entirely, and was compelled to give a plain talk which, under God, swept half his audience into the kingdom. There is an absurd call in the church to-day for what are called ‘big guns,’ and but little appreciation of well-loaded rifles. The ‘Swamp Angel’ in the last war was a failure. It proposed to do great things, but after awhile they found it was cracked, and were afraid to use it lest it blow up. So while men of but small capacity are doing their work well, and make no fuss about it, we have a few ‘big guns’ half cracked with conceit about themselves, and they blow up just when they are wanted for an important service.”