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live for earth alone. All .their thoughts are centered upon the things of the present. The affairs of this life fill up the whole horizon of their existence. Greater folly, surely, there could be none. It degrades the Seed Royal of Heaven to the level of the brute. It ignores the purposes for which we were sent into the world. It forgets the eternal destiny which awaits us on the other side the grave. There are others who live only' for the world to come. Their one purpose, their only ambition, is to reach the rest, and peace, and joys of heaven. They forget that life was given them as an opportunity for glorifying God by ministering to their fellow men. We are here, not to be saved, but to serve. True, we must first be saved as a preliminary to any possible service, but it is only a preliminary. Service—rthe service of our God and of His Christ-—is the main object of our life. If we have failed in that, our life itself has failed. We need not worry about heaven; that will follow salvation and ser vice as the day follows the rising of the sun. J uly 2. “The kingdom of heaven is like unto leavenj. — Matt. 13:33. AND “the kingdom of heaven is within you.” Religion is an internal, not an outside influence. Not conformity to external ordinances, but real spiritual change, is the secret of eternal life. The leaven must be put into the meal ere the,lump can be' leavened. Hence spiritual forces, like leaven, are silent and unseen. “The kingdom of God cometh not with observation;” we may not see its operations, but that does not connote its absence. The leaven' is working silently in many a heart about which we are well nigh in despair. Moreover, leaven acts grad ually; time must be allowed for the leavening process to become complete. This should allay our fears and save us from despair, both as regards ourselves and in respect to the world. Man is naturally in a hurry; his time on earth is but brief; that which is to be done must, in his estimation, be done at once if it is to be done at all. God is a God of leisure; all eternity awaits His purposes; His forces, therefore, like Himself, are usually slow and deliberate in movement; their effects, though sure, are sometimes long delayed. Jf He can afford to wait for the con summation, surely we may do the same. Yet once more, leaven is not self-centered; it “leaveneth the lump.” Our religion, if it be genuine, will not only affect us, it will spread its influence to those by whom we are surrounded. We are ourselves to be leaven, leavening the world: let us pray that the purpose may be accomplished. DOING what? Just the work, whatever it may be, that his Lord has given him to do. Glorious as it might be to be found on our knees at the advent of our Master, it were more glorious still to be found doing our allotted task. S. Francisca Romana is reported to have said: “A wife and a mother, when called upon, must quit her God at the altar, and find Him in her house hold affairs.” True! not only of the wife and the mother, but of all men. That which it behooves us to do—be it never so monotonous, never so humble, never so commonplace, is the work engaged in which we may least fear to be discovered by the Divine. There is a legend that an angel, passing over a certain city, beheld a lady enbroidering an altar cloth, and wept; awhile afterwards he saw a peasant woman cleaning her doorstep, and smiled. The secret was that the lady was neglecting her daily duty in order to “do something for God;” the peasant, doing the daily task, was serving God whether she knew it or no. Men crave for what they call “sphere of higher service,” and some- J uly 3. “Blessed . . . whom his lord . . . shall find so doing.' Matt. 24:46.
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