The boy got scores of his passengers
on the elevator saved, and then he was commissioned and sent into
the Field to devote all his time to saving men.
The Lord will surely let the man's comrades and brethren know, as
surely as He did the Church at Antioch, when "the Holy Ghost
said, Separate Me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have
called them" (Acts xiii. 2).
Sometimes the one who is called will try to hide it in his heart,
and then God stirs up some Officer or minister, some Soldier or
mother in Israel, to lay a hand on his shoulders, and ask, "Are
you not called to the work?" and he finds he cannot hide himself
nor escape from the call, any more than could Adam hide himself
from God behind the trees of the garden, or Jonah escape God's
call by taking ship for Tarshish.
Happy is the man who does not try to escape, but, though
trembling at the mighty responsibility, assumes it, and, with all
humility and faithfulness, sets to work by prayer and patient,
continuous study of God's word, to fit himself for God's work. He
will need to prepare himself, for the call to the work is also a
call to preparation, continuous preparation of the fullest
possible kind.
The man whom God calls cannot safely neglect or despise the call.
He will find his mission on earth, his happiness and peace, his
power and prosperity, his reward in Heaven, and probably Heaven
itself, bound up with that call and dependent upon it.
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