trike God's iron on the anvil, see God's goods across the counter, put God's wealth in circulation, teach God's children in the school,—so shall the dust of your labor build itself into a little sanctuary where you and God may dwell together.
Make truth your friend and guide in all your hourly business,—truth of plan, and purpose, and labor... Whoever will not bow before this monarch you have crowned, let him be rebel to you.
If you are not spiritually minded, do not wait for mysterious light and vision. Go and give up your dearest sin. Go and do what is right. Go and put yourself thoroughly into the power of the holiness of duty.
All the world is an utterance of the Almighty.
It seems so far off,
that Cross of Jesus, and
it really is so near! For
it is lifted up so high that
the waves of time roll
unheeded and unmeaning
at its foot. It is the
power of perfection for us
to-day.
ach high achievement is a sign and token of the whole nature's possibility. What a piece of the man was for that shining moment, it is the duty of the whole man to be always.
May we not daily tread the same paths of holiness and sorrow, joy and love, that Christ has trodden, and see His footsteps on them still?
Even if you have to force yourself to your duty,—still, do it. Do your duty, even if duty be wearisome and hard, for then you are in the place where it can become joyous and easy to you.
We must answer for our actions; God will answer for our powers.