p. 4 | WORKING WITH GOD

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 18, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 25.

WORKING WITH GOD.

All honest, honorable labor has a spiritual significance. The meat which perisheth, the reward which is gained in money or land or some other material form, is worthy of diligent effort, and he would be foolish who should belittle its value; but it is not the only or even the chief reward to be striven for. He who reverently regards himself as working together with God, who therefore cherishes aims beyond and above those of merely immediate and material returns, and who tries to gain through his daily work knowledge of the divine character and purposes, and fellowship with the good and holy—he it is, and he only, who is laboring for the meat which does not perish. He may or may not become rich in property, but he does grow rich in character, and he alone can carry his accumulations with him into the future life.—Congregationalist.