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368 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES This feature of Paul's work contaius au important lesson for ministers to-day. The apostle made it a part of his work to educate young men for the office of the ministry. He took them with him on his missionary journeys, and thus they gained an experience that later enabled them to fill positions of responsibility. When separated from them, he still kept in touch with their work, and his letters to Timothy and to Titus are evidences of how deep was his desire for their success. Experienced workers to-day do a noble work when, instead of trying to carry all the burdens themselves, they train younger workers, and place burdens on their shoulders. Paul never forgot the responsibility resting on him as a minister of Christ; or that if souls were lost through unfaithfulness on his part, God would hold him accountable. ''Whereof I am made a minister,'' he declared of the gospel, ''according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to His saints: to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles ; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: wliereunto I also labor, striving according to His working, which worketh in me mightily. ' ' " These words present before the worker for Christ a high attainment, yet this attainment all can reach "Col. 1:25-29.