“‘Tis not for man to trifle—
Life is brief, and sin is here.
Our age is but the falling of a leaf,
The dropping of a tear.
Not many lives, but only one, have we,
One, only one;
How sacred should that one life be!
We have no time to sport away the hours;
All must be earnest in a world like ours.”
Serving Christ is something very practical. Some people seem to think it is something aside from their common life, something that belongs only to Sundays, and something that can be done only in certain holy moments. But it is really one’s very life or it is nothing. It does not consist merely in acts of worship. There are times when one’s first and most sacred duty is to stay away from a religious service. A young mother was regretting that she had been able to attend church so rarely during the six moths since her baby came. But if the baby really needed a mother’s care all those months, she would have been unfaithful to her Master if she had neglected it even to attend church services.
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