ADAPTABILITY:
Able to accommodate themselves to circumstances and environment, includes
smell, and "all round" enough to fit into a square hole; fair and
square enough to do "all round" work.
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ALONG ABILITY:
A good mixer, as our American friends would say, able to get along with
the next fellow, even if the fellow is unwilling.
CONSTRUCTABILITY:
Not
one who tears things to pieces, but one who builds things up; not a
talker but a doer; not a gasbag who says he can do everything, but a handy man,
who can put his hand to anything and is willing to help and do his best,
whenever, and wherever.
AIM
ABILITY:
Able
to aim high and strike it.
The chief aim being the salvation of soul and body, to love the people, and to seek out the good
in them and find it.
LINGUISTIC
ABILITY:
Without
this, there is no use going to China.
Not a Sinologist, but with enough common sense and " Savay " to
pick up Chinese.
SPIRITUAL
ABILITY:
Most
important; and that kind of it which is sane and healthy and creates force of
character, and elevates and stimulates others; not the goodie goodie, milk and
water stuff, that is willing to shed the last drop of blood for the Cause, but takes good care that the first drop is not shed.
Practical holiness is what I mean.
STICK ABILITY: With perseverance powers; able to say “Come to stay, able to stick at it, all of it, and always at it, and never give in; no, not even in the hot weather." Not " a Stickit,” but a Stick-at-it Missionary is what is needed.
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