Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-08-24
Every Day Religion.
HOW TO DO EVERYTHING TO THE GLORY OF Col

now TO DO EVERYTHING TO THE GLORY oP GOD.
One Of the simplest things in the world,
and yet one of tho hardest to understand, is
the command 'sWhatsoever ye do, whether
ye eat or drink do all to the glory Of God.
1t seems easy TO glorify God in the cathc-
dral, or when the church meets to read and
pray; we feel that the martyr who seals his
faith by his death, glorifes Cod but the
question is how to glorify him in the minuti@
Of life, in things far removed from what is
considered spiritual, and this question puzzles
many. There is nothing more purely physi-
cal than eating and drinking and, if it were
not that we had clothed the table with refined
and genial associations, nothing would be
more repulsive It seems very hard to glo-
rify God in eating, in drinking; very hard
to serve him with our passions and our phys
ical industries. The man who adds up fg-
ures in the counting-room don't see how he Is
to serve God with arithmetic the engineer
sees how he may 60 away from his business
and pray, but he don't see how he is to honor
God with his engine. 1t is as plain as can
be. When Gen. Grant was in command
during the last year Of the war, he had
great burden on his shoulders. Whatever
we may think Of Grants ability, we all con-
cede that he was dsiuterested all the generals
acted from high impulses, and none more so
than Grant Now, it is not likely that he as
sociated his every act with special thoughts Of
his country he was so given up heart and
soul to her cause that be did not need to
think about it, The whole man was devoted
TO patriotism and, if the whole, then all the
parts. You can't start the great wheel on
the outside and have the little spindles on
the inside 90 the other way. If man has
dedicated his life as a student don't care
whether he is sleeping or waking whether he
is stuying or seeking recreation in jolly COM
pany-al that is in him goes to the one end
Of acquiring knowledge.
| Take, for a more familiar illustration, the
good, old-fashioned mother, doing her own
work blessed old days, when the simple old
house needed less care to keep it in order and
we were delivered Of help" think our
paradise lies behind US, that we have gone out
Of Eden) Well you can remember the old
mother getting breakfast, clearing off, sending
the children to school, getting dinner. She
had world Of sweeping, world Of busting
world Of dish-washng but it was all fol
the man she loved best in the world, and fol
the children she loved next best. She would
have told you that everything conspired tC
the family. If you had spoken Of money tC
her, she would have said Do you suppose
| could do what do here for anything but
love ?" Love seasons everything-the thing:
that she don't think about, as well as those
that she specially connects with love. | dom
think that when the mother sits up after the
children are in bed, and sews up long riI
in her big boys overalls, she is in a rapture
of love but love is at the bottom Of it.
And so we come back to where we startt d
and say it is easy to glorify God if we lol,
him. If We make Christ everything to us, j
the whole soul is dedicated to God, if every
part of the being is given to him, then all thu
thoughts and all the work of our life will b,
his-not always consciously but truly Gods
Now when this victory has been gained, anC
the man is totally consecrated to love ,anothe
thing falls out; he gets over his partialism II
experience Many feel that they are reE
eious only when they are in meeting; but
though thinking Of God is then 1t he bu
, siness Of the hour, yet when the 60 ou
into business they are to serve him just tn
: same. Some are called to serve God by tn
= will, some by their thinking powers, some b
emotion. First see that you love God, an
4 then see that you are in the sphere of duty
and you needn't fear but that you will glor
!, fy God in all you do. -,
d A man goes into his nursery, and sees h
children unhappy. In moment ho is on tn
e floor among them, and the whole room is /
rumpus. Some one looks in and says
Why that man is judge what positio
= for him 10 be in !" But God sees that the az
d is not small for it is the natural outgrowt
s of the love that is always in the heart of ii
r father and though he may not once think
+ the children when he is presiding in his cour
he none the less loves them.
We are to consecrate to God every iacult.
c If God gives a man wit and humor, he is
}. use it to keep mems bristles down and the
). claws in. You are just as near the klngdo
y, of God when witty words are on your lips
II when you are pronouncing religious seryic
II A man dies in battle, in school, in the du
geon, in the midst of mirth and gayety
l. the aim of his life is in the line with God
will, and Gods law, he dies glorifying Go
= Some Christians feel that they are not ser
u ing God in vacation. We ought to ser
IN God by rest as well as by work, by sleep,
e laughter, in every mood and in all the
n lenses. Whatever you do, do all to the go
of God. This will disarm life of half
dangers and burdens, and strengthen the co
III sciences that are weak.
Is BRo.-Can a person be Christian vi
r acts from a sense of duty and not from love
"A Mr.. BREoHER-There must always be
:. difference kept in mind between the ripe san
70 and those who are between, or We shall o
D. press the weak A full, ripe, rich Christia
does everything from love but the path
i. the good and of the just grows brighter al
10 brighter to the perfect day. We must ma
allowance in many ways for beginners. Al
lo as to those who are always dwaried, II h
sh plantation in Florida, l wouldn't have
stocked with mandarin orange trees but,
ue saw some of the fruit on those trees
N would not say they were not oranges. Ih
are oranges and so some people, thou
ch dwarf Christians, are Christians, aud are
he cognized by Christ as his children.-'-Hen
pc Ward Beecher.
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