The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-08-11
Workers with Jesus,

Home, Boston, the following class PAPER
was finely rendered by Miss Orianna F.
Harding OF Prospect, and was published
in last weeks issue of Zion's Herald:
Let us first consider the vastness of the
work to which we are called. Our task is
to help complete the work of our de ar
Master who died ere His great plans were
fulfilled. What noble thought-that
we are privileged to join hand and heart
with the God Of heaven to help redeem
the world. The Importance Of the work
brings us to realize with all our hearts
the results that are depending upon u.s.
| we can look out upon the earth and see
| the crisis which is already at hand We
can hear the cries coming from every
quarter of the world, calling the people
of God to a new effort: and world of
misery turns its imploring hands to us
and beseeches us to be worthy of our priv
leges, worthy of our noble destiny. We
have upon us the divine sanction and seal
OF God that we have chosen the noblest
part. Be now and ever faithful unto
death and 81 will give you a crown of
life
Our task is great one, but our posi-
blhties are also great. Oh, what heights
are within ranges OF possibility. Paul
caught glimpse of this in the young
Ephesian lives, and throwing himself up
on his knees, he prayed that God would
grant unto them the riches of His glory
that they ght be strengthened with
might by His spirit, and that they might
apprehend with all saints the breadth,
length, depth and heights, and know the
love of Christ, and finally be filled with
all the fullness of God How much as
workers for Jesus we have already realiz-
ed; how much more we have been able to
ask for and think of. And yet, wonder
ful as our conceptions have been He is
able to do exceeding abundantly above all
we can ask or think. Dear sister workers,
| let us all be encouraged in our noble be-
| ginning, and with all the earnestness of
I our souls let us reach after the likeness of
Christ in His devout and humble temper
of mind, in the beauty and loneliness of
His character; and though far away are
our highest aspirations, still we can
catch glimpses of their beauty, believe in
and follow where they lead, and if we are
unsuccessful in scaling the bodest
| heights. yet we are ASSUMED Of the fact
that We have grown in spiritual stature
IN our very effort to reach the higher
| mounts Of God
1t is essential for rs to know what to
drop and what to lay hold of. Lite is large
We cannot possibly grasp the whole OF it
III the lew short years We have to live.
We may let 50 pretense. Let Us be SO
true and loyal to God that we Shall not
fear to have the deepes spring of our
most secret motives analysed.
| We NOV 1,,,, a,,.-jo+,- ~,
serene soul is strong. Every moment Of
worry weakens the soul for its daily
combat. True Spiritual vision sees things
in their right proportion. Seen in their
trne relation, there is no experience Of
life over which one has right to worry
God always gives strength and wisdom
enough for anything He wants Us to do.
We may let 60 discomfort. III all the
work OF Jesus, hard as it was, never a
murmur fell from those sacred lips. There
are two things which makes for discon-
tent-lack of harmony with ones environ
ment and dissatisfaction with present
opportunities. The first may be over
come, the second put out of our lives.
| A congenial environment j. not essential.
To take our task as God gives it and
then make the best Of it, is the hard
lesson before the human soul To be
strong we must overcome something. We
can never work well while there is friction
in our lives, OF gain i'll our work the
beauty which is born of power and the
sympathy which is born of love. God makes
no mistakes. He put us among these
people. these scenes, these opportunities.
We can make noble life for God out of
wha ever is set before us to work upon.
The ideal is in the worker; the condition
&c e, al, Il,
the ideal.
We must deny self in all our conduct.
Cultivate this principle. Prefer the glory
of God to everything else. Think no
sacrifice too great to make, no hardship
too painful to endure, if you may be the
means OF benetiting perishng souls.
Remember it was for this that Jesus gave
up His life.
We must be wise in the use of our time
When we entered into solemn covenant
with the Lord we consecrated our whole
life to His service; so our time is not our
own, it is the Lords. We can glorify
God by Systematically arranging all our
affairs Give to each duty its time, then
pass 10 the next one
Let us take hold of work There can
be no happy life without work which oc-
cupIes mind, body, heart and soul. Let
us not try to escape our work. AS long as
we live we have work to do. If we do not
the work we We're meant 10 do, it will for
ever remain undone; there will be some
thing incomplete in all the everlasting
years. This work of ours will never pass
away. Work brings happiness. We are
happy when we have done what God has
planned for the day and the hour. and are
confident that we have been brave, help
full, and, above all, accomplishing of our
lot.
Let LIS welcome the sorrow which comes
to us. We are called to bear nothing that
has not been borne before. Every day of
meeting sorrow grandly makes the life
more noble. Every tear that falls from
ones eyes gives a deeper tenderness Of
look and touch Sorrow is given us that,
having felt, suffered and wept, we may be
able to understand, love and bless.
AS there is no duty more often enjoined
by our Saviour, so there is none more in
dispensable in our work than prayer.
Prayer is steady, powerful force in our
| work Whatever victories come to us will
come because we have prayed, and defeats
will come to us in so far as we fail to pray
Workers with Jesus, your individual life
has a silent force which reaches out into
the future and il a quiet way molds and
helps the lives of many people. Laying
aside all unworthy things and taking the
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