"How is one always to know?"
"I am going on to tell you in part. 'Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.'"
"That don't tell me," said Flora. "How can I tell what will do that? And how can one do everything so? Little things—and life is very much made up of little things. Dressing, and studying, and reading, and playing, and amusing one's self."
"O Flora?" Maggie cried; and "Why, Flora!" Meredith said, looking at her; but neither added anything more.
"The Bible says, 'Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do,'" Mr. Murray answered. "In another place, 'Whatsoever ye do, in word or deed.'"
"Well, Mr. Murray, I don't understand it; take eating and drinking—how can that be done to the glory of God?"
"You can easily see how it can be done not to His glory. Any way that is not becoming His servant is not to His glory. Therefore, in excess—of things that do not agree with you and therefore unfit you for duty—of costly dishes, which take the money that might feed starving people."
"But I can't feed all the starving people!" said Flora.
"It is something to feed one. But I will give you another Bible mark, Miss Flora, 'He that saith he abideth in Him,' that is, in Christ, 'ought himself also to walk even as He walked.' Now remember how Christ walked. He was here, 'as one that serveth.' He 'went about doing good.' He 'pleased not Himself.' He 'did always those things that please' God."
"But one can't be like Him," said Esther.