Item - Lord, Send Me

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 31 no. 32 — page 3
Subject / Tag:	Poem
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXXI, no. 32, June 26, 1876 (Issue)
Author:	Kidder, M. A. (Mary Ann), 1820-1905
Date:	June 26, 1876
Edition Description:	[God uses human instruments. Sometimes it is a wonder to me that He does not take the work out of our hands and put it into the hands of angels, or some one able to do it. There are but few now that say, "Here am I, Lord; send me." The cry now is, "Send some one else." "Send the minister," says the elder; "don't send me." Or, if he is not an elder, he says, "Don't send me; send the church officers, the church-wardens, but not me. I have not got the ability, the gifts, or the talents." Oh! honestly say you have not got the heart; for if the heart is loyal, God can use you. It is really all a matter of heart. It does not take God a great while to qualify a man for His work, if he has the heart for it. He may not have many talents, but if he makes good use of what he has, God will soon increase his talents. Look at Elisha! There is another man. We would not have thought of Elisha to take the place of the wonderful prophet. We would have gone to Bethel, or Jericho, to the school of the prophets, and picked out a theological professor, or some great man. But Elijah finds a man in the fields behind twelve yoke of oxen, and Elisha slew his oxen, and consecrated everything to God, and started off with Elijah.] - Mr. Moody's London Sermon