Work; Or, Plenty to Do and How to Do It

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... XVI. CONCLUSION. "Nevertheless, they shall be his servants; that they may know my ocrvice, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries."--2 Chf.on. sii. 8. ..." Christian works are no moro than Animato love and faith, as flowers are the animate spring-tide. Works do follow us all unto God; these stand and bear witness, Not what they seemed, but what they icere only." The Childeen Of The Loed's Suppee. In our progress through this little volume, we have taken it for granted that those who have accompanied us in quest of a few useful hints belong decidedly to the number of those who rejoice in the title of "servants." It is not impossible, however, that these pages may fall into the hands of some who may find the words duty, --work, --service, hard and distasteful. There is a sentimental school in the present day that would fain abolish all these ungraceful words, as they are deemed, and substitute some that are beautiful when joined to the others, but vain and vacant when left to stand by themselves. We hear much of the principle oi "love," which is to supplant duty instead of supporting and adorning it. We have Jehovah revealed to us, not as the personal Master, Father, and Saviour, but as God in everything, and everything as God--the works of His hands transformed into Himself. We have genius, with all its eccentricities and weaknesses, turned into a faith and a worship. We have "earnestness" much lauded and much recommended--not earnestness in truth, but earnestness often in spite of truth, error taken no account of, as long as men are " earnest" in maintaining it. We have aesthetic beauty reared upon an idol's shrine, and all that is "useful" branded, not only as devoid of beauty and elevation, but as debasing to the free and...