SERVANTHOOD
The following is taken from Elisabeth Elliot’s book The Mark Of A Man. In the chapter entitled “A Take-charge Man Is A Servant,” she relates a story her late husband Addison Leitch used to tell: “When he (Leitch) was Dean of a small college in Pennsylvania, he learned that the walls of a certain men’s dormitory were smeared with shaving cream, peanut butter, and jelly. He went over to investigate. Of course not a soul around had any idea how it could possibly have happened. In room after room he met with surprised innocence. He had several options. He could make every man in the dormitory go to work and clean it up. He could call the custodian. It happened that the custodian was a very good worker, an amiable and therefore a very valuable man. To scrub up the mess would have been beyond the call of duty, but he would have done it. There was a third option. Add went and…
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