The Acts of the Apostles (1911) — PDF Scan 363

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LABORING UN DEB DIFFICULTIES 357 this, they may, however, be forced to follow the example of Paul, and engage for a time in manual labor while continuing to carry forward their ministerial work. This they do to advance not their own interests, but the interests of God's cause in the earth. There are times when it seems to the servant of Grod impossible to do the work necessary to be done, b'ecause of the lack of means to carry on a strong, solid work. Some are fearful that with the facilities at their command they cannot do all that they feel it their duty to do. But if they advance in faith, the salvation of God will be revealed, and prosperity will attend their efforts. He who has bidden His followers go into all parts of the world will sustain every laborer who in obedience to His command seeks to proclaim His message. In the upbuilding of His work, the Lord does not always make everything plain before His servants. He sometimes tries the confidence of His people by bringing about circumstances which compel them to move forward in faith. Often He brings them into strait and trying places, and bids them advance when • their feet seem to be touching the waters of Jordan. It is at such times, when the prayers of His servants ascend to Him in earnest faith, that God opens the way before them, and brings them out into a large place. When God's messengers recognize their responsibilities toward the needy portions of the Lord's vineyard, and in the spirit of the Master-worker labor untiringly for the conversion of souls, the angels of God will prepare the way before them, and the