Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1917 — Real Business of Christian Life. [ARTICLE]

Real Business of Christian Life.

To be doing good, to be seeking others’ instruction, relief, moral elevation, present comfort, permanent well-being, is the real business bf the Christian life. To make the household happy and comfortable, to consider the interests and claims of all dependents ; to watch over the virtue of the exposed; to put children on the track of duty and usefulness; to listen to the cry of the needy; to remove stumblingblocks from the path of those who must needs walk in darkness; to seize the chance of serving any mortal creature as a glad opportunity of honoring God and humanity—this is the evidence of that love in the heart, and that ever active principle of obedience to Christ’s example, compared with which > professions, and experiences, and 1 prayers, and fervors of feeling are trifling and deceptive.