STUDY TO BE QUIET

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 30, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 13.

STUDY TO BE QUIET.

SOME men are fond of notoriety. They are never satisfied but when they are prominent in some new enterprise, or advocating some popular cause. They figure largely in conventions, and conferences, and assemblies. They like to have their names in the papers, and have their praises heralded abroad. Were we to judge from these indications, we might suppose that these men were the most successful instruments in promoting every good cause, bettering the condition of men, and elevating the race. But such a supposition would be far from correct. It is not the men who make the greatest display in public, and do the greatest amount of fine talking, that do the most good; it is the quiet, earnest, faithful, persevering workers, who find something to do, and instead of talking about it, go to work and do it, that in the long run accomplish most for God and humanity. It is work that tells; and it is workers that the world needs. The mightiest forces in nature are the silent forces that are always in operation doing their work. And the men who accomplish the greatest good, are the men who are always "about their Father's business," quietly and unostentatiously, it may be, laboring to save souls, and extend the cause of the Redeemer. "Go work to-day in my vineyard."—Methodist Recorder.