p. 11 | Nothing Commonplace

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 26, 1905

Nothing Commonplace

MANY people spend all their life looking for the place in this world which they were intended to fill. They never settle down to anything with restful or contented feeling. What they are doing now is not by any means the work that is suited to their abilities. They have a sunny ideal of a very noble life which they would like to reach, in which their powers would find free scope, and where they could make a very bright record. But in their present position they can not do much of anything, and there is little use to try. They go on, discontented with their lot, and sighing for

another; and while they sigh, the years glide away, and soon they will come to the end, to find they have missed every opportunity of doing anything worthy of an immortal being, in the passage to eternity. The truth is, one's vocation is never some far-off possibility. It is always the simple round of duties that the passing hour brings. No day is commonplace, if we only had eyes to see its splendor. There is no duty that comes to our hand but brings to us the possibility of kingly service.—Christian Work.