Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-26 | Page 4 | Dr. Vance's Daily Article

DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE , I Someone has brought tho clergy, into tho spotlight again This time ic is to say that preaching ' is not a man-1 size Job." Every now and then some-' thing like this gets printed, but souk -how "the oice of one crying In the' wilderness" keeps vocal. Occasionally a John the Baptist loses his head or his stipend, for preaching has nerer had either very secure or very (at per-1 qulsltes Yet as one head rolls off, another ano-ther bobs up, for the race has nev( I run such thin blood as to be unable to grow some who are more enamored of a cause than of a stipend. But is a y oung man a fool today who1 elects preaching0 Is he throwing hlm- self away who determines to devote i his life to the gospel ministry'.' II. IB the holy calling become such a pink tea proposition that tho red-blood '! youths who play football on field day. Will find It tame ? Is preaching a man-size Job" A good way to answer that question Is to ask another Is writing poetry; a man-size Job? Is painting pictures? Is ploughing corn? Is selling Jewi Irj Is raising hogs' Is politl. ' J - -.-.. I unrest Is being Number &99 In tho stee! mills ? Is digging coal and sawing lumber and cataloging mushrooms a man -size Job'' 'I here Is onl yono answer to such questions. It all depends on the man. Nothing is u man-size Job to a mannl-kln mannl-kln Anything enn be made a man-size Job by a real man. Pleaching was a man-size Job to Paul, to Savonarola, to John Calvin and John Knox, to Spurgeon ana Moody, and to a hoot of others who did their work well, but had no band to play their march. Wh:-n will we get far enough along to quit Judging a man by his Job. and begin to Judge the Job by the man? Given a man, and anything he does takes on man-size. But a little man la the same size, whether you pour him Into a bushel measure or -a pint cup. Preaching will likely continue, in spite of ltttle preachers and not be-. be-. iu.se of big ones, for "it has pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." But the size of tho Job depends on the size of the man who does the Job.