Usefulness and Strength by Bishop McIlwaine

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 17, 1863

Usefulness and Strength

By Bishop McIlwaine

USEFULNESS AND STRENGTH.—The secret of all diligence, energy, pleasure, success in duty, is a heart enlarged by the love of God—"For the love of Christ constraineth us." O! that golden chain of perfect freedom! that binding yoke of most sweet and willing bondage! See St. Paul, the bondsman of Christ, going out to his daily service of labors and perils, chanting his morning song, "Most gladly will I glory in infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." Strong in the Lord and in the power of his might, was St. Paul—but his strength was the strength of faith.

Bishop McIlwaine.