The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-08-09

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70 gloriiy God in the catueredrd q
when the church meets to read and
pray we feel that the martyr,wbo seul'
bis faith BY his death glorifes Goa
bat the question is bow to gloity him
ia the minutiu Of life, in things iar re.
NOV 4 from what is considered spirit.
nal, and tins question puzzles many
There is nothing more purely physical
than eating and drinking; and il il
were not that we had clothed the table
with refined aud genial associations,
nothing would be more repulsiye II
seems very hard to glorify God in eat-
ing, ~ drinking; very hard e serve
him with our passions aud our physical
industries The man who adds mp fg.
urcs IL the counting room don't see how
he is to serve God Will arithmetic; the
engineer sees how he may 60 away from
his business aud pray but be don't see
how he is to honor God with his engine.
/ 1t is as plain rs can be. When Gen
Grant was in command duung the last
I year Of the war, he had great burden
on his shoulders. Whatever we may
think of Grants ability, we all concede
that be was disinterested; all the gen
erals acted from high impulses and
none more SO than Grant. Now, it is
not likely that he associated his every
net with special thoughts Of his coun-
try; he was SO given up heart and soul
to her cause that he did not need to
think about it. The whole man was de-
voted TO patiiotism and, If the whole,
I then all the parts, You can't start the
great wheel on the outside, and have
the little spindles Oh the inside 90 the
other way. II a man has dedicated his
life as a student-I don't care whether
he is sleeping or waking, whether lie is
studying or seeking recreation in Jolly
company that is in him goes to the
one end Of acquiring knowledge.
Take, for 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 ard we were
delivered Of help" | think our para
disc lies behind us, that we have gone
out Of Eden Well you can remember
the old mother getting breakfast, clear
ing oil, sending the children to school,
getting dinner. She had world OF
sweeping, a world Of dusting, a world
of dish washing; but it was all for the
man she loved best in the world, and
fol the children she love next best. She
would have told you that everything
conspired to the family. II you had
spoken OF money to her. she would
have said "Do You suppose I could do
what do here for anything but love
| Love seasons everything the things
that she don't think about, as well as
those that she specially connects with
love. don't think that when the moth
or sits up after the children are in bed
and sews up a long rip in her big boy 5
oyeralls, she is in a rapture Of love; but
love is at the bottom Of it.
| And so we come back to where sc
started, and say that it is easy to glori-
fy God if we love him. II we make
Christ every thing to us, if the whole
soul is dedicated to God, if every part
Of the being is gyeu to him, then all
the thoughts and all the work Of oui
life will be his not always consciously
but truly Gods
Now, where this victory has been
gained, and the man is totally conse.
Grated to love, another thing falls out
be gets over his partialism in expert.
ence. Many people feel that they are
religious only when they are in meet.
ing; but, though thinking Of God il
then the business Of the hour, yet when
they 60 out into business they are tc
serve him just the same Some are
called TO serve God by the will
some by their thinking powers, some
by emotion. First see that you love
God, and then see that you are in tho
| sphere Of duty. and you needn't feai
, but that you will glorify God in all you
do.
man goes into his nursery, and
sees his children unhappy. In a mo.
! ment be is on the floor among them
and the whole room is in a rumpus.-
Some one looks in and says: "Why
/ that man is a Judge; what position for
BIN to be in f. But God sees that The
act is not small; for it is the natural
outgrowth Of the love that is always in
the heart Of the father; and though he
may not once think Of the children
when be is presiding in bis court, be
none the less loves them.
We are to consecra.e 10 God ever,
faculty. II God gives a man wit and
, humor, he is 70 use il 10 keep mems
, bristles down aud their claws 10. You
are just as near the kingdom Of God