p. 646 | Paul’s Unfailing Mission

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 41.

Paul’s Unfailing Mission

PAUL ever had his eye on his work. His mission was to preach Jesus, first to his brethren, then to the Gentiles. Nothing could make him forget this. In the dungeon at Philippi, on the stairs of the tower at Jerusalem, before the king at Cæsarea, chained to a soldier at Rome,—he kept that mission always in view, and improved every moment for its prosecution. And his imprisonment was doubtless less irksome, through his activity for his Master and for those whom his Master loved. The best way of bearing a burden, is by forgetting it in absorbing thought about something else. Brooding over trouble only increases its weight.