Our work does not amount to much. We only teach a class, or distribute a bundle of tracts, or preach a sermon, and we say, “Oh, if I had done it in some other way!” Christ will make no record of our bungling way if we only did the best we could. He will make a record of our intention and the earnestness of our attempt.
We can not get the attention of our class, or we break down in out exhortation, or our sermon falls dead, and we go home disgusted and sorry; we try to speak, and feel Christ is afar off Why he is nearer than if we had succeeded, if we have been in earnest, for he knows we need sympathy, and he is touched with our infirmity.—TALMAGE.
