The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3Newton, Richard
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The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3
Newton, Richard
Jesus Christ -- Art; Jesus Christ -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
"Is that all?" said the little fellow joyfully; "oh! that is easy
enough." So he went to his room, and kneeling beside his bed, asked
Jesus to give him a new heart. He believed that the dear Saviour,
who loves little children, did hear and answer his prayer. And he
left his room with a happy heart, for he felt sure that he was now
one of Christ's own loving children, and willing servants. And this
is the way in which we must take the yoke of Jesus upon us, and
become his willing servants. And then in everything that we do we can
be serving him. As St. Paul says--"whether we eat or drink, or
whatsoever we do, we can do all to the glory of God."
A good man once said "that if God should send two angels down from
heaven, and should tell one of them to sit on a throne and rule a
kingdom, and the other to sweep the streets of a city, the latter
would feel that he was serving God as acceptably in handling his
broom as his brother angel was in holding his sceptre. And this is
true. We see the same illustrated in the fable of:
"The Stream and the Mill." "I notice," said the stream to the mill,
"that you grind beans as well and as cheerfully as you do the finest
wheat." "Certainly," said the mill; "what am I here for but to grind?
and so long as I work, what does it signify to me what the work is?
My business is to serve my master, and I am not a whit more useful
when I turn out the finest flour than when I turn out the coarsest
meal. My honor is, not in doing fine work, but in doing any thing
that is given me to do in the best way that I can." That is true. And
this is just the way in which Jesus wishes us to serve him when he
says to "_his own_ servants," "Occupy till I come." This means serve
me, in everything, as you would do if you saw me standing by your
side.
"How to Serve God." Willie's mother let him go with his little sister
into the street to play. She told them not to go off the street on
which their house stood. Willie was a little fellow, and lisped very
much in talking; but he was brave, and he was obedient. Presently his
sister asked him to go into another street; but he refused. "Mamma
thaid no," was Willie's answer. "The thaid we muthn't do off thith
threet," said Willie in his lisping way. "Only just a little way
round the corner," said his teasing sister. "Mamma'll never know it."
"But I thall know it my own thelf; and I don't want to know any thuch
a mean thing; and I won't!" And Willie straightened himself, and
stood up like a man. That was brave and beautiful in Willie. And that
is the way in which we should try to serve our heavenly Master.
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