"The hymn goes on to tell you. The next line gives you part of it. 'A God to glorify.' "
"To glorify?" said Ellen, doubtfully.
"Yes, that is, to honour to give him all the honour that belongs to him."
"But can I honour Him?"
"Most certainly; either honour or dishonour; you cannot help doing one."
"I!" said Ellen, again.
"Must not your behaviour speak either well or ill for the mother who has brought you up?"
"Yes, I know that."
"Very well; when a child of God lives as he ought to do, people cannot help having high and noble thoughts of that glorious One whom he serves, and of that perfect law he obeys. Little as they may love the ways of religion in their own secret hearts, they cannot help confessing that there is a God, and that they ought to serve him. But a worldling, and still more, an unfaithful Christian, just helps people to forget there is such a Being, and makes them think either that religion is a sham, or that they may safely go on despising it. I have heard it said, Ellen, that Christians are the only Bible some people ever read; and it is true; all they know of religion is what they get from the lives of its professors; and oh! were the world but full of the right kind of example, the kingdom of darkness could not stand. 'Arise, shine!' is a word that every Christian ought to take home."
"But how can I shine?" asked Ellen.