While the church has a responsibility to
the publishing house, so also has the publishing house to the
church. Each is to uphold the other.
Those in positions of responsibility in
the publishing houses should not allow themselves to be so pressed
with work that they have no time for maintaining the spiritual
interest. When this interest is kept alive in the publishing
house, it will exert a powerful influence in the church; and
when it is kept alive in the church, it will exert a powerful
influence in the publishing house. God's blessing will rest on
the work when it is so conducted that souls are won to Christ.
All the workers in the publishing house
who profess the name of Christ should be workers in the church.
It is essential to their own spiritual life that they improve
every means of grace. They will obtain strength, not by standing
as spectators, but by becoming workers, everyone should be enlisted
in some line of regular, systematic labor in connection with
the church. All should realize that as Christians this is their
duty. By their baptismal vow they stand pledged to do all in
their power to build up the church of Christ. Show them that
love and loyalty to their Redeemer, loyalty to the standard of
true manhood and womanhood, loyalty to the institution with which
they are connected, demands this. They cannot be faithful servants
of Christ, they cannot be men and women of real integrity, they
cannot be acceptable workers in God's institution, while neglecting
these duties.
The managers of the institution in its
various departments should have a special care that the youth
form right habits in these lines. When the meetings of the church
are neglected or duties connected with its work are left undone,
let the cause be ascertained. By kind, tactful effort endeavor
to arouse the careless and to revive a waning interest.
None should allow their own work to excuse
neglect of the Lord's sacred service. Much better might they
lay aside the work which concerns themselves than neglect their
duty to God.