QUIET TALKS ON SERVICE
by
S. D. GORDON
Author of "Quiet Talks on Power" and "Quiet Talks on Prayer"
1906
Contents
Personal Contact with Jesus: The Beginning of Service The Triple Life: The Perspective of Service Yokefellows: The Rhythm of Service A Passion for Winning Men: The Motive-power of Service Deep-Sea Fishing: The Ambition of Service Money: The Golden Channel of Service Worry: A Hindrance to Service Gideon's Band: Sifted for Service
Personal Contact With Jesus: The Beginning of Service.
The Beginning of an Endless Friendship. An Ideal Biography. The Eyes of the Heart. We are Changed. The Outlook Changed. Talking with Jesus. Getting Somebody Else. The True Source of Strong Service.
Personal Contact With Jesus: The Beginning of Service.
(John i:35-51.)
The Beginning of an Endless Friendship.
About a quarter of four one afternoon, three young men were standing together on a road leading down to a swift-running river. It was an old road, beaten down hard by thousands of feet through hundreds of years. It led down to the river, and then along its bank through a village scatteringly nestled by the fords of the river. The young men were intently absorbed in conversation.
One of them was a man to attract attention anywhere. He was clearly the leader of the three. His clothing was very plain, even to severeness. His face was spare, suggesting a diet as severely plain as his garments. The abundance of dark hair on head and face brought out sharply the spare, thoughtful, earnest look of his face. His eyes glowed like coals of living fire beneath the thick, bushy eyebrows. He talked quietly but intensely. There was a subdued vigor and force about his very person.
One of the others was a very different type of man. He was intense too, like the leader, but there was a fineness and a far-looking depth about his eye such as suggests a gray eye rather than a black. His hair was softer and finer, and his skin too. In him intensity seemed to blend with a fine grain in his whole make-up. The third man was a quiet, matter-of-fact looking fellow. He did not talk much, except to ask an occasional question. The three men were engaged in earnest conversation, when a fourth man, a stranger, came down the road and, passing the three by, went on ahead.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Quiet Talks on Service by S. D. Gordon
- 2: The close personal contact with Jesus begun and continued
- 3: So we come to Jesus first through a creed
- 4: To touch up his paintings there
- 5: There seemed a halo about the old broken down cabin
- 6: Andrew findeth his brother Peter
- 7: The Arve flowing into the Rhone
- 8: Whom God calls He always qualifies
- 9: He won't move unless he will
- 10: The iceberg is kindlier than the derelict
- 11: There must be constant full touch with the feed wire or rail
- 12: Jesus embodied the Father to men
- 13: Of aggressive earnestness in winning men
- 14: These are highly favored in privilege
- 15: The Perspective of True Service
- 16: Helping carry away those whom the plague had slain
- 17: Yokefellows The Rhythm of Service
- 18: Learn of Me means training in discipleship
- 19: In military usage surrender is forced
- 20: A yoke in action has both sides occupied
- 21: It's yoked living and yoked service
- 22: I suppose like a shoemaker's awl
- 23: The scar mark of Jesus' surrender was not in His ear
- 24: 8 True rest is in the unhurried rhythm of action
- 25: Made by the famous Antonius Stradivarius himself
- 26: Shall we not each of us yield this rarest instrument
- 27: Literally to be suffering the same distress
- 28: And with God fatherhood means motherhood too
- 29: Or sucked under by their swift current
- 30: In social life or in some firmament lower than this
- 31: You shine in the lower skies if you will
- 32: The fine tact that He always used
- 33: Over to knowing Jesus personally
- 34: These shepherds are keen to know their sheep
- 35: You know how sensitive collies are to praise or criticism
- 36: A practical idealist was Jesus
- 37: There is needed the divine Savior and the human saver
- 38: Great untouched deeps in the world
- 39: These nets of ours have been patched and patched
- 40: Shamgar sets his jaws together hard
- 41: Ideas of draughts changed that day
- 42: Money The Golden Channel of Service
- 43: His dishonest practices have been discovered
- 44: Which the unrighteous world reckons riches
- 45: And as he gets up to the gateway
- 46: The standard of wealth in the homeland is lives
- 47: There is another alchemy whereby men
- 48: And duplication of personality
- 49: Sacrifice hallows what it touches
- 50: The keeper of our brother's purse
- 51: And Maggie in her childlike simplicity lifted her crutches
- 52: Some folks ought to worry more
- 53: There is a Lord of the harvest
- 54: Overwork always makes a sensitive spirit worry
- 55: Thanksgiving and praise are always associated with singing
- 56: He is talking of the earlier days of his pilgrimage
- 57: They are an interwoven trinity
- 58: And every detail down to the smallest
- 59: Mueller breathed a quiet prayer
- 60: Taylor explained the situation to the conductor
- 61: Does no temptation come to him
- 62: Gideon's Band Sifted for Service
- 63: Is used for special leadership
- 64: First of all Gideon the leader is chosen out
- 65: Gideon going to be national leader
- 66: And I imagine even Gideon shook a bit inside as he watched
- 67: But he thinks of God's call through Gideon
- 68: Their enthusiasm was seasoned
- 69: Mark vi 34 with Matthew xiv 14