Common Sense in Christian Work.
By Dr. Fish
COMMON SENSE IS THE BEST SORT OF SENSE, AND it is especially a good thing for a live Christian or Christian worker to have. Every pursuit of man ought to be a sacred pursuit. John Newton said if two angels were sent to the earth, one as Prime Minister and the other as a street-sweeper, it would be a matter of no difference whether they received the one or the other commission; it would be honor enough that the Lord had sent them. It is possible and practical to carry this right through, and do everything for the Lord Jesus Christ. If you want to do anything for the Lord, try to keep the thought before your mind constantly that, whether you go out or come in, eat or drink, you are to do everything to glorify God. The reason the world paralyzes a man's piety, is because he does not have singleness of aim. God put men into the world and asked them to be pious, and they ought to make the world minister to their piety. Dr. Kane, seeing himself in danger of being crushed by an iceberg, said: “I'll use the iceberg:” he thrust out the harpoon, anchored his ship to the iceberg, and it bore him to Polar waters. So you must make the world and business bear you heavenward. Dr. Chalmers, riding on a stage-coach, by the side of the driver, said: “John, why do you hit that off leader such a crack with your lash?” “Away yonder there's a white stone; that off leader is afraid of that stone; so by the crack of my whip and the pain in his legs, I want to get his idea off from it.” Dr. Chalmers went home, elaborated the idea, and wrote “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection.” You must drive off the devil and kill the world by putting a new idea in the mind.—DR. FISH, in Tabernacle College Lecture.