No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him.

God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

So many missionaries, intent on doing something, forget that His main work is to make something of them.

In my own experience I have found that the most extravagant dreams of boyhood have not surpassed the great experience of being in the Will of God, and I believe that nothing could be better. That is not to say that I do not want other things, and other ways of living, and other places to see, but in my right mind I know that my hopes and plans for myself could not be any better than He has arranged and fulfilled them. Thus may we all find it, and know the truth of the Word which says, He will be our guide even until death.

Surely those who know the great passionate heart of Jehovah must deny their own loves to share in the expression of His.

Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.