Personality is never for a single moment fixed:  it is as changing and evanescent as a cloud.  We are whirlwind spirits, swept through time and space, bearing within our souls hopes, fears, joys, sorrows, which are never twice the same.  Every aspect of the universe leaves new impressions on us, and our wills, in their world-sweep, daily desire different things.

Incompleteness lies on life—­restlessness is in the heart.  True love has no final habitation on earth; there is no abiding-place for our deepest affection, our most tender yearning.  It is curious how deeply one may love, and yet feel that there is something more.  In all our journeys, skyward and sunward, we never reach the End of All.

Over against this vague and changing self, there stands out the figure of the changeless Christ, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.  In Him we find the environment of all our lives, and the sum of all our dreams.

2.  Jesus calls us by our earth-born cares.  In Mendelssohn’s Elijah, there is a voice which sings:  “O rest in the Lord!” This angel’s message is the voice of Jesus to the human race.

The voice of Jesus calls us to awake to toil.  We sometimes forget this, and imagine that if we follow Jesus, we shall never have anything to do.  Christ does not still the machinery of the world, nor shut the mine, nor take away the sowing and the reaping.  The call of Jesus is not a call to rest from work, but to rest in work.  The rest we receive is that of sympathy, of inspiration, of efficiency.  Christ really increases the toil-capacity of man.  Man can do more work, harder work, and always better work, because of the faith that is in him.  What makes the confusion and fatigue of life is, that men are everywhere scrambling for themselves, and trying to manage their own undertakings, instead of falling into harmony with God, and through Him, with all that is.  What wears the soul out is not the work of life itself—­it is its drudgery, its monotony, its blind vagueness, its apparent purposelessness.  We do not wish to scatter our lives and spend our years in nothingness.

Christ comes into the world and says:  Over-fatigue is abnormal.  There is not enough work in the universe to tire every one all out.  There is just enough for each one to do happily, and to do well.  I am come as the great industrial organizer.  My mission is not to take away toil, but to redistribute it.  My industrial plan is the largest of history—­it is also the most simple.  I look down over the world, as a master upon his men.  My work is not to found an earthly kingdom, as some have thought; it is not primarily to set up industrial establishments, or syndicates, or ways of transport and trade.  My work is to build up in the universe a spiritual kingdom of energy, power, and progress.  To this kingdom all material things are accessory.  In My hand are all abilities, as well as all knowledge.  Not a sparrow falls to the ground without My notice.  Not a lily blooms without My delight.  Not a brick is laid, not a stone is set, not an axe is swung, except beneath My eye.  I provide for My own.  To each man I assign his work, his task.  If he takes upon him only what I give him to do, he will never be under-paid, or over-tired.