p. 133 | SKILLED LABOR by B. F. M.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 3, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 9

SKILLED LABOR.

By B. F. M.

To be a successful teacher requires arduous labor in the preparation for the work. In fact, to become efficient in any work requires labor. The science and art of achieving a great work are only acquired by labor.

Skilled labor is in great demand in the missionary work. Some wonder that they do not accomplish more in this work when they have given but the slightest attention to becoming skilled in it. It is not a lack of gifts, as many seem to think, that results are so small, but a lack of rightly developing and employing these gifts. To become a skilled workman should be the object of every one who has a vocation. Especially should this be the case with those who labor in the sacred cause of God. There are too many who are satisfied with inefficient work. This certainly is displeasing to God. Remember that poor, inefficient workmen are too numerous in every vocation. But “there is room at the top.” Who will set their mark high, and endure the toil and care that will make them skilled workmen? Such will have the approval of Heaven.

B. F. M.