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Refined Character Prepares Us for Christian Work

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S. D. A. Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 26, 1881

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 20

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Refined Character Prepares Us for Christian Work

A REFINED and elevated Christian character prepares us best for Christian work. God does not send us out on distant and difficult duties while easy and pressing ones are left at home undone. Faithful in a few things precedes rulership over many. We have no need to search other continents for work, while our own servant at home cannot read, nor fancy ourselves called to showy exploits, while a neighbor’s child is ill for want of food, or a brother or a sister unhelped in our own house. The careful gleaner will return home at nightfall, richly laden with the golden grain.