A Lamp to the Path: Or, The Word of God in the Heart, the Home, the Workshop and the Market-Place — John Shaqi
A Lamp to the Path: Or, The Word of God in the Heart, the Home, the Workshop and the Market-PlaceTweedie, W. K. (William King)
Religion
A Lamp to the Path: Or, The Word of God in the Heart, the Home, the Workshop and the Market-Place
Tweedie, W. K. (William King)
Christian life
II. Christianity in the /Home/. It must next appear there.
Parents and children, masters and servants, or the
employers and the employed, must all feel the genial
or the curbing power of truth in their several places
and relations.
III. Christianity in the /Workshop/--from which its
influence has too long been banished.
IV. Christianity in the /Market-place/, the place of
bargains and of busy trade.
V. Christianity in /the Professions/: 1. The physician;
2. The lawyer; 3. The divine.
VI. Christianity in our /ordinary social intercourse/; and,
Finally, Christianity, as the crown and glory of man's
existence upon earth.
THE WILLING WORKMAN.
Now, it is too manifest to require any discussion, that unless
Christianity be planted in the heart, it cannot control the life.
A religion merely for the hand has never done much for man. A creed
which teaches us only to cleanse the outside of the cup, has never
succeeded in elevating us far, or making us kindred either with the
pure or the lofty. A mere collection of doctrines, though each be
scriptural and sound, has never availed to restore man to happiness
and God. Merely to do as our fathers did, or hold, however
tenaciously, a mere ancestral faith, is not the process by which
the evil that is in man can be corrected. The soldier who is dragged
to the battle-field is not likely to become a hero. The man who
is carried to a foreign land in chains, seldom becomes one of its
benefactors. He who needs compulsion and the rod ere he will acquire
even the rudiments of learning, is not likely soon to become a ripe
scholar. In every department, it is the willing mind, the earnest
spirit, the hearty, zealous labourer, who achieves great results.
The heart must be thrown into the pursuit, even though it were only
some menial employment; and if that be not the case, then, however
he may be engaged, man will either be disgusted and repelled, or
doomed to drag a heavy chain amid his toil.
THE HEART UNMASKED.
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