Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IY. THE FAITHFUL SEBVANT. " Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: and whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men."—Col. iii. 22,23. That which is mainly wanted in human relations, is a principle which shall lift our obligations and duties to each other, above those perturbations which spring out of our personal infirmities, follies, and sins. Each man needs a rule and a motive independent of that variable element, the goodness or the badness of the brother to whom he owes a duty. In truth, we only rise to a true human dignity when our supreme motive and regulative power has its organ within; and when the question, in every claim which is made on our service, is, not how much has such an one the power to exact of me, but, how much do Iowe it to myself, aa in the sight of God, to do. It is as needful for masters as for servants. How much do I owe it to God to do for my servants, is the master's question. How much do I owe it to God to do for my master, is the servant's. Till this be fairly recognised and established as the Christian principle of all social relations, the " tearing, biting, and devouring each other," will go on to the end of time. It may be a very Utopian principle. And it is quite possible, too, that it may have been much more easy to see the way to the application of it in the good old times, when the relations of both home and business were much more simple and limited than they can be considered now. There is a kind of feeling in the minds of those who do not care to look the reality of this Christian obligation very fully in the face, that the two parties are now, in a large measure, independent of each other, and t9at ea... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.