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Show Unworldliness is this to hold things from God- in the perpetual conviction that they will not last; to have the world, and Jiot to let the world have us; to be the world's masters, and not the world's slaves. . o g& 1 I have just fallen upon the two saddest sad-dest FJcrete of the ' disease which troubles tho age we live in: the envi-ous'hatred envi-ous'hatred of him who ruffers want, and the selfish "-forgetfulnesa of him who lives in affluence The aet of common helpfulness is so simple.- so' easy, so natural to. the noble soul that it rises from the heart and flows: through the hand unnoticed by us. Bui. nothing, great or small, ever scapes the attention. of the Divine Di-vine Teacher, and so he assures us that, every noble, "act done in his name shall surely bring its reward. Never be afraid of giving up your best, and God will give you his better. If the question' will intrude: "What shall I have if I give up this?" relegate rele-gate that question to faith, and answer: an-swer: "I Fliall have God. In my giving, giv-ing, in my love. God gk'es himself to me." 3 O Truth is always consistent with itself it-self and needs nothing to help it out. It is alwavs near at hand, sits.unon our lips.- and is ready to" drop-out before we are aware: a lie is troublesome, trouble-some, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. V - Take your vase of Venice glass out of the furnace and strew chaff over it in- its - transparent heat, and recover that to its clearness and rubied glory when the north wind has blown upon if but do not think to strew chaff lover the, child fresh from God's nres-I nres-I ence and, to bring the heavenly colors col-ors back to him at least in this world. |
