Practical Godliness and Self-Sacrifice
The need of the world is not more theory, but more practical Godliness; not more theology, but more willingness to listen to what God has declared and do what He has commanded. The world is full of expert duty-dodgers; what it needs is more burden-bearers. The world is full of self-seeking; what it needs is more self-sacrifice and obedience to the higher law of service. Who serves self is the slave of sin; who serves his fellow-men is in line for joint inheritance with the King of kings and Lord of lords. There is an immediate gain that means eternal loss; there is an immediate loss that means everlasting gain, a gain that is "incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away." It is more important that we do what God commands than that we invent the most skilful scheme for doing something that He has never commanded or authorized, while we leave undone the great duty He sets before us. Is it unpopular to be in the minority? He who stands with God alone has a majority the strongest can never overthrow. He who would be disloyal to God in order to be in the majority will one day find himself in a minority he would gladly shun, and with a record he would give the world to hide.