Go to work! Nothing is more salutary to the human soul than the direct work of saving men. There is a basis of fact. There is the next ground for action. Whatever your theory may be of this or that doctrine, there is a man dying in his need, and there is a power which you may apply for his transformation. Therefore go to work upon men, and with men.
And let me tell you, there is nothing you can do that would be more satisfactory to your own soul. I speak what I do know when I say there is nothing which brings men back from the desert of sandy and arid speculation, nothing which brings a man in again to the shore from the cheerless ocean of doubt, nothing which gives us such faith and certainty, as laying aside all reasoning and engaging in the practical work of the Gospel.
I know that there is restorative influence in that work. I know that, whatever doubts I may have, once let my heart and hand join together in working with men for their salvation, and my doubts disappear; I know in whom I believe; I know the work to which I am appointed; and the sweetest that I ever had of God came to me in the act of laboring for my fellow men. The most glorious views I ever had of man's interior life and of essential, divine truths were ministered to me when I was working for the salvation of others.—H. W. Beecher.