. Living and loving; selections from the devotional works of Professor A. Tholuck for every day of the month;. ppen, that when the world issues its commandon the right hand and Christ his on the left, we willsometimes hold to the one master and despise theother. In nothing have I experienced the truth of thisso much as in the matter of men-pleasing. It is amaz-ing how much our thoughts and purposes and wholeposition depend upon our fellow men. Even the influ-ence that the place and time at which we happen to liveexerts upon our opinions and acts, is ultimately deter-mined by some particular pe
. Living and loving; selections from the devotional works of Professor A. Tholuck for every day of the month;. ppen, that when the world issues its commandon the right hand and Christ his on the left, we willsometimes hold to the one master and despise theother. In nothing have I experienced the truth of thisso much as in the matter of men-pleasing. It is amaz-ing how much our thoughts and purposes and wholeposition depend upon our fellow men. Even the influ-ence that the place and time at which we happen to liveexerts upon our opinions and acts, is ultimately deter-mined by some particular person. When, for example,I figure myself residing in another neighborhood, andamong other influential people, I have the convictionthat then many things would appear to me in a verydifferent light from that in which I see them not much of the disquietude of the soul originatein the circumstance that, instead of seeking to pleaseone, we seek to please many ? In this way we becometoo external, and the quiet and sacred fire, which oughtever to burn for God upon the altar of the heart, 38 GwentB*sl£tb Dag A CHRISTIANS RIGHTS. CHRISTIAN humility will not throw herselfaway, and never appear but in the guise ofa miserable sinner; because He in whoseschool we have all been made miserablesinners has likewise made us children of God, — inthe exercise of free grace, no doubt, and not for themerit of our works, that no flesh may boast. Christianhumility will not throw itself away because occasionsmay come which require a Christian to avouch and vin-dicate both what and how much grace has been be-stowed upon him. Not in vain has it been recordedthat St. Paul asserted his right to the privileges of aRoman citizen ; and as members of Christ and subjectsof his kingdom we also have rights and , indeed, the humble disciple of Jesus walksthrough life with a bent rather than with an uplifted head,like a tree loaded with fruit. When the occasion eme
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