Serving Christ by Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 23, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 49.

Serving Christ.

By Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

I HAVE seen bankruptcies in every kind of secular business, but I never knew a man to become insolvent or be "sold out" while in the service of Christ. What an appetite it gives! How the dividends roll in, and the profits roll up! The richest man in England in these times was grand old Lord Shaftesbury, who was buried the other day with hundreds of shoe-blacks and coster-mongers mourning around his coffin. He was a man of few words, and never spent any time "telling his experience;" it told itself. Love of Christ kept his big Corliss engine running day and night; and it drove wheels and spindles all over London. Do you say that you are not a Paul or a Shaftesbury? Very well. Christ did not intend you to be, or he would have put you into their position. He put you where you are, and says to you, Serve me and I will give thee thy wages.—Theo. L. Cuyler, in Christian at Work.