For help or pity moveth her as she
Gives to each one the burden of the day.
Therefore, let us pray:
Give us the strength we need to live, O Lord.
—Julia C. R. Dorr.
(1872)
Living, The, as an Asset—See [Motive, Mercenary].
LIVING THE GOSPEL
An American teacher was employed in Japan in a government school, on the understanding that during school hours he should not utter a word on the subject of Christianity. The engagement was faithfully kept, and he lived before his students the Christ life, but never spoke of it to them. Not a word was said to influence the young men committed to his care, but so beautiful was his character, and so blameless his example, that forty of the students without his knowledge, met in a grove and signed a secret covenant to abandon idolatry. Twenty-five of them entered the Kyoto Christian Training School and some of them are now preaching the gospel which their teacher unconsciously commended.
(1873)