of the matter.  My comrades, there are not two different standards of work—­one for you and one for me.  You must, therefore, be under the same obligation to do your work in the house or in the mine or in the warehouse, or wherever the Providence of God has placed you” to please your Heavenly Master, as I am on the platform, in the council chamber, or wherever my duty may call me.

“But here another question arises.  Do you accept Jesus Christ as your Master in the affairs of your daily life?  If not, of course, this part of my argument will be thrown away; but if you do, then it will be the most powerful of all.

“At the commencement of His ministry, Jesus Christ announced that He was about to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on the earth.  By the Kingdom of Heaven He meant a Kingdom consisting of heavenly government, heavenly laws, heavenly obedience, heavenly power, heavenly love, heavenly joy.  These, taken together, constitute the chief characteristics of this Kingdom, and instead of being confined, as it had been hitherto, to a handful of people in Jerusalem and Judea, it was to cover the whole earth.

“Now the subjects of that Kingdom must accept Jesus Christ as their Master and Lord.  No one can either come into that Kingdom or remain in it without compliance with this law.  You cannot be a son without being a servant.

“But you have written yourselves down as His servants, and said you will ‘no longer live unto yourselves,’ nor to please the world, but to do the will of Him who has redeemed you; that is, to please Him.  Now the Master’s province, everybody knows, is, not only to choose the work of His servants, but to get it done, if possible, to His satisfaction.

“He has appointed me my work.  He has arranged that I should direct the movements of this great Army, preach Salvation, write Letters for you to read, save as many sinners as I can, and strive to get my Soldiers safely landed on the Celestial Shore.  Before all else, I must do this Work, as nearly as I can, to satisfy my Lord—­and nothing short of the best work I can produce will accomplish that.

“And as with me so with you.  He has chosen your work, if you have put your life into His hands, just as truly as He has chosen mine, although it may be of a different kind.  I am writing this letter in the train.  I am a poor writer at best.  When I was a child my schoolmaster neglected to teach me to hold my pen properly.  In this respect he did not do good work, and I have had to suffer for it ever since.  Still, I am doing my work as well as I can, in order that it may profit you and please my Lord.

“In settling how much work he will do, a man must have due regard to the claims of his own health.  If he rushes at his work without due discretion, and does more than his strength will reasonably allow, he will probably break