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Christ, and do the best work in his service you can. Go among the sick and troubled, and learn the work of a son of consolation. Go among men and women, living in sin, and learn how to win such to Christ. Thus exercising your gifts you will fast become a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. But I must stop. Think on the things I have written. Go to work determined to succeed. My heart's desire and prayer to God is that he may be with you and bless you, and that you may be made a blessing to the church and the world. Your friend, D. A. W. II. DEAR FRIEND: Yours of the 24th ult., asking me to "tell what constitutes a call to the gospel minis- try, or what are the evidences of it," has been received. I cheerfully comply with your request. 218 A Busy Life. There is an external and an internal call to the ministry. The former is given by the church. It does not give fitness for the work. The church examines those who profess to have been called of God, and in ordination, orders and acknowledges them as duly authorized to do the work of the ministry. The external call proceeds upon and pre- supposes the] internal, which is of God. To this I ask special attention:

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