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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 1, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 16.

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EDITORIALS

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The child of God is changed by beholding. As he looks on the face of Jesus Christ, as he studies his perfect character, as he dwells on his graces and virtues, unconsciously he becomes like him. Says the apostle, "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed . . . from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord." A child becomes like that with which he associates. The character, the form and features, the very expression of the face, are molded by the environment. Husbands and wives who have lived together for years, surrounded by the same environment, passing through the same experiences, become alike in deportment, in thought, and even in looks. It is thus that we shall become like Christ through association with him; only in our association with the Lord Jesus the quickening power of his Holy Spirit hastens the transformation.
It has been said, and we believe truly, that the people of this world are divided into two classes, the workers and the shirkers. We find these two classes represented wherever we go, in the home, in the church, and in the community. Some there are who recognize their responsibility. They realize that they have been created and placed in this world for a purpose, and their burden of heart is to know what their calling is and to meet the demands of that calling. Others there are who pass along without any sense of life's responsibilities. They are here, they know not and care not why. They feel that the world owes them a living. They feel no burden aside from ministering to their own personal pleasures and caprices, and even in doing this they seek to draw heavily upon the time and strength of others. Let us realize that life is noble and earnest; that we form a part of God's great purpose; and let us seek to meet that purpose in all life's relationships. Let us not be shirkers, leaners, dependents, parasites; but workers, lifters, laborers together with God, in the accomplishment of his work among the children of men.