THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVICE.
ONLY by service can we come into harmony with God’s plan. There is only one comprehensive plan, the plan of God, which appears in the creation and preservation of the universe, and nothing is of value except as it serves some useful purpose in that plan. In the material universe we see harmony, because everything falls into its place in the comprehensive plan of God, and serves the ends for which it was created. But in human society there is much discord and trouble, and it all arises from one cause, a refusal to serve God, a refusal to come into harmony with His moral plan for the government of His children. All things work together for good to them that serve God, for service is love in action. Such persons find that they are working with, rather than against, God’s perfect plan. But, on the other hand, those who refuse to serve put themselves out of harmony with God and His way of doing things, and by so doing they find more and more, or, if they do not discover the fact, it is nevertheless the case, that all things work against them. Things do not come their way because they are going the wrong way.—The Advance.