p. 1 | Pleasing the Master

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 20, 1882

Pleasing the Master.

Major Whittle, the evangelist, says that late one night, when it was exceedingly cold, he went to the railway station to take a train out from the city. The gate-keeper, in accordance with his instructions, required every passenger to show his ticket before going through into the cars. This compelled many to put down their satchels, to unbutton their overcoats, and otherwise be greatly incommoded. It was not in human nature to refrain from protesting and complaining under such circumstances, and the gate-keeper had to stand some pretty severe abuse. "You are a very unpopular man to-night," pleasantly said the major. "I only care to be popular with one man," was the reply, "and that is the superintendent." That is the one desire that should actuate all the servants of Christ in regard to their master. Paul said: "If I yet please men, I should not be the servant of Christ."