Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1877 — Living to God. [ARTICLE]

Living to God.

Some time ago I went into a gentleman’s counting room, and saw upon the wall, just above his desk, a Scripture motto. If I remember rightly it was this —“ Whether, therefore, ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” Now, It is easy enough to see that there are two ways of doing business. In the spirit contrary to that Scripture, or in the spirit in accordance with that Scripture. If that man should manage his concerns simply for his own glory, should be sharp in bargains, and squeezing in contracts, and mean toward employes, and dishonest when he saw a chance for it; or if he should be even scrupulously honest, because he had be-, come convinced that it was on the whole best for him, without any reference to God, and the right, then it is easy to see that man would he worldly, the slave of tbe world, not fighting it, but capitulating to it. His chief thought is self. But, if that man carried out, in all his tran sactions the spirit of that Scripture; if he said, I am put here in this establishment of mine to serve God in it; if he flashed the light of the Divine glory upon every bargain; if he scorned dishonesty, ana kept his hands clean from dirty tricks of trade because by thns doing he would stain his loyalty to God, then, it is easy enough to see, that though that man were the busiest man upon the afreet he

would yet be a man unworldly, not a captive to the world, but a son Of God; in the world as he ought to be, tat a victor over it as he ought to be. His chief strength is God.— Way land Hoyt, in Bagtiet Weekly.