What Can I Do? | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 22, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 10, No. 25.

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“What Can I Do?”

Has God called me by his grace, he has said to me, “Go labor in my vineyard.” I desire to obey, but what can I do?

I can watch over my own growth in grace.

I can study God's word—meditate on his character—and call on his holy name in prayer.

I can endeavor to exemplify the spirit of the gospel in my life and conversation.

This I can do for myself, that I may become a “living epistle, known and read of all men.”

But I can do something more. I can be of some service to the church. I can be in attendance at its meetings for prayer, and business, and public worship.

I can speak a word of encouragement to the desponding, and endeavor to reclaim those who are stepping aside from the path of duty.

I can contribute the due proportion of my time and money toward sustaining the church at home and abroad.

Yes, and this is not all I can do—I can do something for the unconverted.

I can invite my friends and acquaintances to go with me to the prayer-meeting, and to the Sabbath congregation.

I can say a word to them about their souls; I can put a tract in their hands adapted to their wants; and in the Sabbath School I can labor more directly for the salvation of the young.—Congregational Herald.