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: ra. EVERY-DAT WORK. " Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all tc the glory of God."—1 Coe. x. 81. We need not bid, for clolster'd cell, Our neighbor and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky. The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask— Room to deny ourselves—a road To bring us daily nearer God."—Keele. "All may of Thee partake, Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture, For Thy Sake, Will not grow bright and clean: This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold, For that which God doth touch and own, Cannot for less be told."—Hereert. Those who wish to bestow the years of their life upon God, must also give Him the days, the hours, and the moments. Bicker- steth says, " Only think of present duties, the moment's work : our life is given to us in moments, and we shall have joys for each." Every-day work is often looked upon as waste of time, or only fitted for those who have no exalted sensibilities, no heroic purposes, no aspirations after the higher services of God. We strongly suspect, however, that those who can see no true sublimity in the faithful performance of lowly and self- denying tasks, even to the " sweeping of a floor " if need be, will fall very far short of the heroism and magnanimity required for the sacrifices and the services which they think themselves prepared to offer. On the other hand, the missionary will be all the better fitted for his noble career, if he has been faithful in the daily mission of life; the martyr will not suffer with less fortitude, because he has long taken up meekly the daily cross. Heroism, in fact, is rarely understood to be, simply,—uncompromised duty! Heroism, which is not duty, is but a dre...