456 RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE: SOCIAL 



thing of the kingdom of God comes in every business worthily 

 administered for the advantage of all concerned. Something of it 

 comes in every adjustment of the relations of employer and employed. 

 Something of it comes in every adornment of life, in every enlarge- 

 ment of worthy comfort. Something of it comes in every proper 

 charity, in every wise philanthropy, in every just and generous 

 struggle after reform. Something of it comes to every man and 

 every woman, every child, who is faithful in his place, and who views 

 that place and w r ork as part of the great and sacred whole. 



And when we have said all this we look about us and say, " But 

 the kingdom of God has already come." It is all abroad among us. 

 Religion is everywhere manifest. We give thanks that there are so 

 many millions of men who are to-day working for its manifestation, 

 although they do not call their working by that name. We take 

 up our own little tasks with a solemn sense that they are part of the 

 great whole, and we lift up our hearts to God, asking that he will help 

 us with mo re open eyes, with more generous hearts, and with more 

 entire consecration to give ourselves to the furtherance of his kingdom 

 and the manifestation of his religion. 



