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What a mean and beggarly thing it is for a man only to do his work well when he is watched.

Such oversight is for boys at school and mere hirelings. You never think of watching noble-spirited men.

Did anybody thus dream of supervising Raphael and Michael Angelo to keep them to their work? No, the master artist requires no eye to urge him on.

Popes and emperors came to visit the great painters in their studios but did they paint the better because these grandees gazed upon them?

Certainly not. So the true Christian wants no eye of man to watch him.

There may be pastors and preachers who are the better for being looked after by bishops and presbyters; but fancy a bishop overseeing the work of Martin Luther and trying to quicken his zeal; or imagine a presbyter looking after Calvin to keep him sound in faith.

Will you do our best as unto Him, even when no one monitors you?

Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)*
Pastor/Bible Teacher/Author

*Charles Spurgeon preached powerful sermons of penetrating thought and precise exposition. His oratory skills held throngs of listeners spellbound in the Metropolitan Tabernacle at London, England. Many Christians have discovered Spurgeon’s messages to be among the best in Christian literature. He was a friend of Hudson Taylor, George Mueller, David Livingstone and other spiritual giants of his time.

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