'Unconscious Ministry

Unconscious Ministry

It is said that when Thorwaldsen, the Danish sculptor, returned to his native land with those wonderful works of art which have made his name immortal, chiseled in Italy with patient toil and glowing inspiration, the servants who unpacked the marble statues, scattered upon the ground the straw which was wrapped around them.

The next summer flowers from the gardens of Rome were blooming in the streets of Copenhagen, from the seeds thus borne and planted by accident. While pursuing his glorious purpose, and leaving magnificent results in breathing marble, the artist was, at the same time, and unconsciously, scattering other beautiful things in his path to give cheer and gladness.

In the same way, Christ's lowly workers unconsciously bless the world. They come out every morning from the presence of God and go to their work, intent upon their daily tasks.

All day long as they toil, they drop gentle words from their lips, and scatter little seeds of kindness about them; and tomorrow flowers from the garden of God, spring up in the dusty streets of earth and along the hard paths of toil on which their feet tread. The Lord knows them among all others to be His, by the beauty and usefulness of their lives.

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