Tending to Business by L. E. F.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 19, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 37.

Tending to Business

By L. E. F.

A CERTAIN well-known clergyman, who recently returned from the Ford Peace Expedition, declares he has learned "that the business of a preacher of the gospel is—to preach the gospel." This is truly encouraging—if it is only put into practice.

We would that all ministers everywhere might heed the commission of the Master Preacher, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." Also the charge of the apostle Paul: "I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom; Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry." 2 Tim. 4: 1-5.

Not politics, nor civic reform, nor ethics, nor socialism, nor any of the thousand and one other attractions that have usurped the place of the old-fashioned gospel in many modern pulpits, but the preaching of the gospel of the Word—that is the business of the minister of Jesus Christ. Let us attend to our business. L. E. F.