Do Good | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 11, 1864

Do Good.

EVER be doing good. "Two things make a good Christian—good actions and good aims; and though a good aim doth not make a bad action good, as in Uzziah; yet a bad aim makes a good action bad, as in Jehu, whose justice was approved, but his policy punished."

The Rev. William Grimshaw, who preached fifteen, twenty, and often thirty times in a week, and that for fifteen years together, said: "When I die I shall then have my greatest grief and my greatest joy—my greatest grief that I have done so little for Jesus, and my greatest joy that Jesus has done so much for me. My last words shall be: Here goes an unprofitable servant."

Always abound in the work of the Lord. Do good. Labor now; you shall have rest enough in Heaven. "Two Heavens are too much for those to expect that never deserved one." This is not our rest. Here we are to accomplish, as an hireling, our day: here we are to occupy till our Lord come; and we should be diligent, that we may render our account at last with joy and not with grief—abounding in the work of the Lord, rich in good works. The Christian must not be an idler. Let this be his motto; Trust in the Lord and do good. Do good!