DANGER OF PRAISE IN CHRISTIAN WORK.
It is easy to get in the habit of expecting someone to show their appreciation of whatever we are trying to do, and to look for it. This is very often a great hindrance to a Christian worker's best work, for when we are looking and expecting applause, it is sure to take away the spirit and the purpose of what we are trying to do, and we change our motive, unconsciously, perhaps, into one of looking for praise from men rather than doing what work God has laid in our path, conscientiously, and entirely for him, without thinking of what people will say. It is as much of a hindrance to young Christians to have too much attention given to what they do as too little, and perhaps even more. There is great need of watchfulness and care on the part of each one of us as Christian workers that we do not fall into this habit of expecting applause for the work that God is trying to do through us.—Union Gospel News.