Faithful Men in Church Service
By Methodist Recorder
SOME men serve the church in order to serve themselves. They seek positions in the church in order to acquire influence to be used in promoting their own personal, selfish interests. They never bind themselves down to hard, continuous work, exclusively for the church. When certain positions suit their convenience and their personal ends, they are willing, and perhaps anxious, to fill them; but when such positions cannot be obtained, something else that will keep them before the church, and enable them to carry out their personal ends, is secured. There are men prominent in the church who have never rendered the church any really valuable service—men of projects—men of many enterprises—men who hold on to the church with one hand and to the world with the other. What the church needs, and should appreciate, is men of one work—men wholly devoted to the work of soul-saving—men who are not in the service to-day and out of it to-morrow, as suits their convenience, but who with unswerving purpose pursue their work, taking good and bad as it comes, and laying their all upon the altar of church service. It is persistent, untiring, faithful men who promote the interests of the church, and who deserve to be held in honor. Mere time-servers never do the church any good.