The Minister's Sacred Duty

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 15, 1881

The Minister's Sacred Duty

It is axiomatic that every man in this world should make the most of himself. But by as much as the minister's mission transcends in importance, all other missions of all other men, by so much should he regard it as his most sacred duty intelligently to use all his powers, and to use them to the very best advantage. The neglect of a talent is a sin, but the squandering of a talent is a crime. A man without zeal in the ministry is a pitiable object, but a man with abundance of zeal and a lack of knowledge, is a pitiable object too. The danger to the ministry then is, in this extravagant age, itself to be extravagant, extravagant of its vital energy, extravagant of its mental powers.— Sel.