Washington, Ga.
_Three things make a divine--prayer, meditation,
temptation._--_Luther._
_If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your
ministry as he did me, to teach you to pray. Remember Luther’s maxim,
“To have prayed well is to have studied well.” Get your text from
God, your thoughts, your words._--_McCheyne._
The Christian Witness Co.
Chicago
Copyright 1907
by
E. M. Bounds.
Copyright now owned by
The Christian Witness Co.
_Recreation to a minister must be as whetting is with the mower--that
is, to be used only so far as is necessary for his work. May a
physician in plague-time take any more relaxation or recreation than
is necessary for his life, when so many are expecting his help in a
case of life and death? Will you stand by and see sinners gasping
under the pangs of death, and say: “God doth not require me to make
myself a drudge to save them?” Is this the voice of ministerial or
Christian compassion or rather of sensual laziness and diabolical
cruelty?_--RICHARD BAXTER.
_Misemployment of time is injurious to the mind. In illness I have
looked back with self-reproach on days spent in my study: I was
wading through history and poetry and monthly journals, but I was
in my study! Another man’s trifling is notorious to all observers,
but what am I doing? Nothing, perhaps, that has a reference to the
spiritual good of my congregation. Be much in retirement and prayer.
Study the honor and glory of your Master._--RICHARD CECIL.