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Show I CiVING SERVICE TO COD For earn one nf ns, whether on a bed of pain. In feebleness and uncertainty uncer-tainty of purposn, such as comes with 111 health or over strained nerves, or whatever ele niny be our Immediate condition, uothluit Is more ti"Rimt, nothing more behooves us than tu ask, "What woulilst Thou have me to do?" Kor, whatever our state, however helpless help-less and Im-apalile, however little service serv-ice to God. or to oor neighbor seems within our power, there Is no doubt at all as to Ills wllllnn us to do something. some-thing. Not necessarily any great thing; It may bo only aome Utile mes sage of sympathy snd comfort to tarn to one even more lonely than wo nra; It may be soma tiny pleasuie to a IHtls child, or a kindly word or njlunre to one whofce own fault has cut him oft from general kindness and pity; It may be even only In humble patience to slnnd and wait till Ho makes Ills will plain, abstaining the while from murmur and frotfulness; but. In soma shape or other, be certain that your Master and Lord bears and will answer an-swer your question: "What wouldst Thou havs me to do?" II, U Sidney Lear. |