THE DISCIPLE'S REWARD by A. Smith

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, March 4, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 10

THE DISCIPLE'S REWARD.

By A. Smith

BY A. SMITH.

A YOUNG German pianist, when engaged in acquiring his profession, was required by his preceptor to practice daily, for two whole years, upon a silent instrument. When, at length, he was allowed access to a responding piano, he was greatly astonished at the sweet and sublime harmony that answered to his touch. So the disciple in the school of Christ must practice long and patiently the tasks imposed by the divine Master, being often discouraged at the apparently useless results of his efforts, only sustained by his love for and confidence in the wisdom of his Lord, and by the hope of securing a moderate degree of triumph at the end of his long drill, though unable to determine the measure of that triumph by any known precedent.

But, when the day of immortal glory will have dawned, and he is permitted to join with the heavenly choristers in the anthems above, his soul will thrill with a sense of the inherited glory as the astonishing result of his patient toil, and which, in this earthly vale of tears, “eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,” and the measure of whose duration will be eternity.