business life, its public life, its social life, its family life. The employer is doing God’s will when He treats those in his employment justly and generously. The tradesman is doing God’s will when he buys and sells honestly. The shop assistant is doing God’s will by being diligent and courteous, and yet withal scrupulously straightforward and true. The artizan is doing God’s will when he respects his employer’s time, and does every bit of work as well as it can be done. Fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters in the home are doing God’s will when they strive to make home happy by their self-forgetfulness and ready helpfulness. “Doing God’s will” means doing everything as we know God would have us do it, making God supreme over every detail of human life. It means buying and selling, keeping ledgers, serving at the counter, teaching at the desk, toiling in the fields, sitting in the council chamber, casting a vote, taking our pleasure, sharing in social joys, and doing all this for God. This is what we pray for when we say, “Thy will be done.” Look at the qualifying words that follow: “as in heaven so on earth.” Heaven supplies the pattern for earth. I have just two words to say about the way in which God’s will is done in heaven—(1) It is done _cheerfully_. Saints and angels find their highest joy in doing God’s will. If earth is to be like heaven in this respect, we must obey God cheerfully. God wants no grudging service. Our obedience must be glad, willing, free. God’s will can not be done by us as it is done in heaven, until we can say sincerely, “I delight to do Thy will, O my God, yea, Thy law is within my heart.” (2) It is done by ALL. You will look in vain in the heavenly land for the disobedient and the refractory and the rebellious. Heaven is perfectly happy, because all its people are perfect in their obedience. Before earth can be like heaven, God’s will must be done by ALL. It is done to-day only by a FEW. There are multitudes who rebel against Him. When these return to their allegiance, the day of God will break. _Thy will be done!_ This petition calls our attention to the most crying and urgent need of our day, the need of a simpler and more implicit obedience. It is not more knowledge of God’s will that we want, but grace to put in practice what we know. What is the use of coming here to-day to hear God’s will declared, if to-morrow in our business life, we deliberately flout and reject it? I venture to say this, that if to-morrow and the following days we only did what we know our Lord desires us to do, we should revolutionise the life of this town. And will you suffer me to remind you that it is not to those who make a profession and parade of religion that heaven is promised, but to those who faithfully and loyally obey. “Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven.”