All life becomes glorious as we see that even in the least of our daily tasks we may be doing the will of God, that it may be just as necessary a part of the divine service that I should serve at a desk, a counter, or a machine, should sweep a room or tend a child as that another should preach or pray. For the great Master of all who knows all our work, measures it all, not as we do; He sees the glory of the cup of cold water and the divinity of the commonplace. XIII Our Father and Our Fellows _The Primary Reconciliation_ _Faith in Our Fellows_ _The Law of Forgiveness_ _Sorrow is sympathy's school._ _Love makes the heaviest load seem light._ _To be willing to be saved alone is to be lost._ _The truly godly see something divine in all._ _Your appreciation may be another's inspiration._ _Kindness is the sign of divine kinship._ _You cannot knit the souls of men with soft sawder._ _You cannot be a leader and lose sight of those who are to be led._ _The shortness of the day excuses no man from greatness of endeavour._ _When a man thinks of nothing but his sins and failures he will have nothing else to think of._ _Lots of people who talk of their lives as blue are only colour blind, they either are green or yellow._ _He is only shortsighted who pronounces the world bad after looking in his own heart._ _Many a man is waiting for an inspiration who would find success at once if he was not so afraid of a little perspiration._ XIII THE PRIMARY RECONCILIATION Men in the days of the great Teacher were as we are to-day, prone to compound for the neglect of duties near at hand by the adoration of spiritual delights far off. They talked about getting right with God while they continued to do wrong to men. The problem of the hypocrite who is so thrilled with the delights of heaven that he scorns earthly duties and decencies is not a new one. How easy it is to substitute syllogisms for service, to think that we do our duty by describing it, so to exhaust oneself in pleasant and seductive dreams of a distant heaven that we have no power left to apply to the problems of a needy present-day world. The mockery of religion to-day is that men and women are going to the churches, singing themselves into ecstatic complacency and imaginary harmony with their God while their greed is crushing the hearts of the helpless and they are blinding themselves to the world's gloom and pain that unhindered they may enjoy spiritual delights. Things cannot be right in our relations to the Father of spirits until they are made right in our relations with our brothers in the flesh. In Christianity social righteousness is basic to spiritual blessing. The ideal kingdom waits for ideal conditions and relations amongst its subjects.