The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 83
How to take up the work
How to take up the work.
Whoever takes up this work should do so in the fear of God, in all humility, should ever pray for more and more love for God and souls, and never forget that, of all efforts to help souls, this work requires in those that attempt to carry it on, some knowledge of the world, combined with plenty of tact and common sense. Maudlin sentimentality, ignorance, excitability, impatience, talkativeness, goody-goodiness, are the ruination of it.
Those who under God will succeed best are those who aro calm, patient, brightly hopeful, refined, and who, as regards their own efforts and the work they help, say as little as possible.