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Failure of Half Way

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 5, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 26.

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Failure of Half Way

By Christian Witness

A MISSIONARY in Swaziland, in South Africa, told a native that feathers make a good bed. The native went to his kraal and spread a few feathers on a board; and when he awoke the next morning he was stiff and sore, and complained that the missionary was "a liar." The trouble was not in the missionary, but in the fewness of the feathers. In our Christian life, if we sow sparingly we reap sparingly. If we rob God and His poor of the fellowship that belongs to them, doing only what we must to keep up the appearance of righteousness, we need not wonder if, at times, we only have joy enough to keep us miserable in our souls. But on the other hand, the hilarious giving of the second mile means joy and victory in our own lives, a living fellowship with the Lord, and the Gospel for those who will not have it unless we practise such giving. In which mile do we live? —Christian Witness.