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the service of His courts without such conscious renewal of 
our sacrifice! Too soon, alas! when we go forth again, the 
world breaks in on the atmosphere of worship in which our 
souls have been uplifted. But there is one means by which, 
in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, we can hope that the 
impulse of absolute, unreserved affection may be persistent. 
[t 1s contained in the old words: ** Whether ye eat, or drink, 
or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” In the 
humblest things, your recreations, your meals, your pastimes, 
your objects of pursuit, your interests, your occupations, 
your friendships, yeur family relations, your domestic duties, 
you can go through your round of actions either to the 
Divine glory or not. You can do everything ina right spirit 
and a wrong. Yes, in the very highest things of all, even in 
your worship itself, a wrong disposition i is just as possible as 
a right. O, ask God Himself this day that henceforth, in 
everything connected with your whole lives, things gr eat or 
things small, all may be solely and wholly ‘for His honow, 
and the spread of His kingdom on earth! 
7. The Ultimate Iesult in the Future. 
And we know, from this intimacy of communion with the 
Eternal which we have experienced, that He will not throw 
us away when our work in this life is over. We have seen 
the King, the Lord of Hosts, face to face. and we know that 
if we have been found worthy for that sight, He will not 
forget us. And we have within ourselves the beginnings of 
this eternal life: faith, hope, charity, wisdom, calmness, 
humility, self-control, o-entleness, strength. We know that 
these are of God, and can never die. We know that they 
are eternal, not merely as abstract virtues, or qualities of 
God, in which we have our share for a time, and then pass 
away; but that just as they are all centred in the eternal 
Personality of God, so also they will never die even in their 
developments in our own personalities, who are created in 
His image. All else :—all that is not of God—the wishes of 
our earthly nature, the deceptive appearances that dazzle 
our eyes for a time, the shows and mummeries of all that is 
temporal and external, that which belongs to this world and 
not to the imner aterual world of virtue, of morality, of 
faith, of God—this will perish from our character more and 
more, 
