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A CONSECRATED MINISTRY 363 and trial, and to touch liis lips with living fire. All too slight is the hold that Christ's ambassadors often have npon eternal realities. If men will walk with God, He will hide them in the cleft of the Eock. Thus hidden, they can see God, even as Moses saw Him. By the power and light that He imparts they can comprehend more and accomplish more than their finite judgment had deemed possible. Satan's craft is most successfully used against those who are depressed. When discouragement threatens to overwhelm the minister, let him spread out before God his necessities. It was when the heavens were as brass over Paul that he trusted most fully in God. More than most men, he knew the meaning of afiliction; but listen to his triumphant cry as, beset by temptation and conflict, his feet press heavenward: ''Our light afSiction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen."* Paul's eyes were ever fastened on the unseen and eternal. Eealizing that he was fighting against supernatural powers, he placed his dependence on God, and in this lay his strength. It is by seeing Him who is invisible that strength and vigor of soul are gained, and the power of earth over mind and character is broken. A pastor should mingle freely with the peoiole for whom he labors, that by becoming acquainted with them, he may know how to adapt his teaching to their needs. ^Yhen a minister has preached a sermon, his work has but just begun. There is personal work for him to do. He should visit the people *2 Cor. 4:17,18.