Sunday at Home
A FEW PEBBLES. Ask not a man’s creed. Ask his need. Do not pray for crutches, but for wings. Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks ; they are the summits of ranges. All godlike things are joyous. They have touched God. The sufficiency of my merit is to know my merit is not sufficient. Do that which is assigned thee, and thou canst not hope too much nor dare too much. Do but your duty, and do not trouble yourself whether it is in the cold or by a good fire. I would give nothing for that man’s religion whose very dog and cat are not the better for it. A soul occupied with great ideas best performs small duties ; the divinest views of life penetrate clearly into the meanest emergencies. If your eye is on the eternal your intellect will grow, and your opinions and actions will have a beauty which no learning or combined advantages of other men can rival. The gifted man is he who sees the essential point. Intellect altogether expresses i+self in this power of discerning ; and how much of morality is in the kind of insight we get of anything ! Love hopes always because it believes always. How easy it is to admire people who agree with us. There is no difference between stealing from men and robbing God. Unbelief never tries to pnll anybody ont of the ditch. Prove that men can get to heaven by their own works, and there are people who would die for want of sleep. The man who picks his cross never gets the right one. One day Christ made Andrew a worker for him all the rest of his life. Walking with God is done one step at a time.
The thing we grumble about is often the one that is doing the most for our good. There are too many men who love to preach but hate to practise. When you visit the sick, don’t spend much time in talking about the wall paper or the weather. The man who walks straight himself keeps a good many other people from wobbling. When God wants to know how much real salt there is on earth, He doesn’t, go to ministeral reports to find it out.
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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 9, 2 June 1894, Page 7
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381Sunday at Home Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 9, 2 June 1894, Page 7
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