Our Employment by A. P. Lawton

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 12, 1858

Our Employment.

By A. P. Lawton

PROPERTY should not be acquired in a doubtful manner. Our employment should be honorable and honest in the sight of all men, that the gospel be not blamed. Better have less and live above reproach. God will not accept an apology that the cause is needy. The cause of God can never need the wages of sin. Though we give our goods to feed the poor, and our bodies to be burned, it cannot buy heaven. The cattle upon a thousand hills are the Lord's, the gold also is his, and he can turn it into his treasury as he has need. That we should be diligent in business, that we may have to give to the more needy, I fully believe; but a holy life, a close walk with God, is what the remnant need more than gold. It must be sought and obtained or temporal means will be useless. That God will baptize his people with the Holy Spirit, is my fervent prayer.

A. P. LAWTON.

West Winfield, N. Y., July 23d, 1858.