Declining "Opportunities"
WHEN the devil can not injure a man in any other way, he sometimes does so by persuading him to accept an opportunity for doing good. It is a great mistake to accept a call to do good when we could do better by leaving it alone. This truth is well brought out by a sentence in a letter from one of the most active and efficient Christian laymen in this country. In replying to one who had urged him to render a certain large and needed service to others, he replied, in declining, "I realize what an opportunity I am missing; and yet it seems right to miss even great opportunities for the sake of doing a little more thoroly a lot of things that I am already committed to and am in danger of doing inadequately." In such a decision lies the secret of many a man's greatest usefulness to God and men.— Sunday School Times.