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position is understood and half its difficulties obviated by that very
fact. It requires strong spiritual nerve and muscle to carry religion into
the workshop and business office, sanctifying the details of everyday
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life, and ordering every worldly transaction to the standard of a Bible
Christian.
Jesus, in His thirty years of seclusion at Nazareth, toiled and rested,
ate and slept, from week to week and from year to year, the same as
His humble contemporaries. He called no attention to Himself as a
marked personage; yet He was the world’s Redeemer, the adored of
angels, doing, all the time, His Father’s work, living out a lesson that
should remain for humanity to copy to the end of time.
This essential lesson of contented industry in the necessary duties
of life, however humble, is yet to be learned by the greater portion of
Christ’s followers. If there is no human eye to criticize our work, nor
voice to praise or blame, it should be done just as well as if the Infinite
One Himself were personally to inspect it. We should be as faithful in
the minor details of our business as we would in the larger affairs of
life
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