. Family devotions, for every morning and evening throughout the year. Translated from the German of Sturm and Tiede. FAMILY DEVOTIONS. 65 time and strength to the enterprises of philanthropy; eachmoment is the Lords, each sinew is the Lords. You may beupright in every dealing of trade, scrupulously honourable inall the intercourses of life ; but, a just weight and balance,are the Lords, all the weights of the bag are His work. Andwhere, then, is the merit of works ? Oh, throw into one heapeach power of the mind, each energy of the body ; use, inGods service, each grain of your substance, each
. Family devotions, for every morning and evening throughout the year. Translated from the German of Sturm and Tiede. FAMILY DEVOTIONS. 65 time and strength to the enterprises of philanthropy; eachmoment is the Lords, each sinew is the Lords. You may beupright in every dealing of trade, scrupulously honourable inall the intercourses of life ; but, a just weight and balance,are the Lords, all the weights of the bag are His work. Andwhere, then, is the merit of works ? Oh, throw into one heapeach power of the mind, each energy of the body ; use, inGods service, each grain of your substance, each second ofyour time ; give to the Almighty, every throb of the pulse,every drawing of the breath ; labour and strive, and be instantin season and out of season: and let the steepness of themountain, daunt you not, and the swellings of the ocean, de-ter you not, and the ruggedness of the desert, appal you not;âbut on ! still on, in toiling for your Maker! and dream, andtalk, and boast of merit, when you can find that particle in theheap, or, that shred in the exploit, which you may excludefrom the confession,â
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