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A CONSECRATED MINISTRY 369 wlio, putting themselves under the control of the great Teacher, learn daily in the school of Christ. The power at God's command is limitless, and the minister who in his great need shuts himself in with the Lord may be assured that he will receive that which will be to his hearers a savor of life unto life. Paul's writings show that the gospel minister should be an example of the truths that he teaches, giving no offense in anything, that the ministry be not blamed. " " Of his own work he has left us a picture in his letter to the Corinthian believers: ^^In all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true ; as unknown, and yet well known ; as dying, and,' behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich. ' ' " To Titus he wrote: ''Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded. In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you."" There is nothing more precious in the sight of God than His ministers, who go forth into the waste " 2 Cor. 6 : 3, 4-10. " Titus 2 : 6-8.