The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-10-29
BE Religious i'm every Calling.

Spurgeon never uttered moro truth than Wnen
he spoke az follows with reference TO the every
day devotion which Christ demands OF ms peo-
ple. There is no obligation that binds a preacher
70 a devoted life that does not fall equally upon
the LAWYER. the brakeman, or the mechanic He
says
- Sometimes, when some of you have been stir
red up by n sermon. you have come to me and
said D.. Mr.. SpurgeOn, could / go 10 China ?
Could become u missionary? Could | become
a minister?' In very many cases the brethren
who offer are exceedingly unfit for any service OF
the kind, for they have very little gift OF ex-
preston, very little natural genius. and no adapta-
ton for such a work, and l have constantly and
frequently TO say, My dear brother, be conse-
Grated To Christ in your daily calling do not
seek TO take a spiritual Office, but spirituallze
your common Office. Why, the cobbler can con-
secrate his lapstOne, while many n minister has
desecrated his pulpit. The ploughman can put
his hand TO the plough in as holy a manner as
ever did minister 10 the bread. In
dealing with your ribbons and your groceries, in
handling your bricks and your jack-planes, you
can be as truly priests TO God as were those who
slew the bullocks and burned them with the holy
fire in the days Of yore. This old fact needs to
be brought out again. We do not SO much want
great preachers as good, upright traders it il
not so much deacOns and elders we long for, as it
is TO have men who are deacons for Christ in
common life, and are really elders of the Church
in their ordinary conversation. Sirs, Christ did
not come into the world TO take all fishermen
from their nets, though he did take some nor 10
call all publicans from the receipt of custom,
though be did call one he did not come to make
every Martha into q Mary, though he did bless a
Martha and 4 Mary too. He would have you to
be- housewives still be sisters of mercy in your
own habitations. He would have you be traders,
buyers, and sellers, workers and toilers still for
the end of Christianity is not 10 make preachers,
but 10 make holy men. The preacher is but the
tool he may be sometimes but the scafold of the
house but ye are Gods husbandry ye are Gods
building; ye, in your common acts and common
deeds, are they who are TO serve God"
AMERICAN School GIRLs.-l do not know any
contrast that would be more surprising TO an
Englishman, up to that moment ignorant of the
matter, than that which he would frd by visit
ing, first of all, a free-school in london, and then
4 free-school in New York. The female pupil at
4 free-school in London, rs u rule, is either "a
ragged pauper or a charity girl 4; if not degraded,
at least stigmatized by the badges and dress of
the charity. We Englishmen know we'll the type
of each, and have a fairly correct idea of the
amount of education which is impaired TO them.
We see the result afterward when the same girls
become our servants and the wives of our grOOns,
and pOrters. fThe female pupil at Il free-school
in New York is neither a pauper or charity girl.
She is dressed with the utmost decency. She is
perfectly clean. In speaking to her you can not,
in any degree, guess whether her father has n
dollar a day or three thousand dollars Il year a;
nor will you be able to guess by the manner in
which her associates treat her. As regards her
manner to you, it is always the same as
though her father were, in all respects, your
equal.-AnthOny IrOHope.