Ministers Must Live What They Preach
By F. Whitfield
MINISTER of Christ, aim to live out of the pulpit what you have preached in it. If you preach Christ, live Christ. What men hear in the pulpit, let them see at the dinner table and the visit. If, notwithstanding your faithful, earnest preaching, you would not have the blood of souls to answer for when the Lord shall return, be watchful, prayerful, before you go into the pulpit, and when you come out of it. God keep us from the sin of saving a soul with one hand and destroying it with the other! Oh, the blood of souls! Who can estimate the fearful responsibility! Minister of Christ, "be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." 1 Tim. 4:12. Thus alone will souls be effectually won to Christ, and become thy "joy and crown of rejoicing" in the day of the Lord.—F. Whitfield.