Loyalty to God

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 22, 1905

WE do not read that Caleb the son of Jephunneh or Joshua the son of Nun were exceptionally brilliant men. They had no power as orators to move the people. The only time they ever attempted such a thing in their early life (up to forty years of age) they came very near losing their lives in the attempt. And yet no two men were more highly prized of God than were these two. They had one quality worth more than all else. They were loyal to God. They may have failed and slipped and stumbled over perverse dispositions or inherited appetites the same as other men, but they did not lay their sins at God's door, nor did they murmur at Him on account of difficulties. Whatever others did they were loyal to God, they "wholly followed the Lord." It is Calebs and Joshuas that are needed in the church to-day.