Christian Work Requires Practical Duty
THERE are some who are waiting for some great impulse to come and compel them to do Christian work. They confound a service of love with one of feeling. Mere duty is hard and repulsive to them. They do not know that performance of duty is the basis of a service of love. They forget that we are to "endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ,' that we may please Him who has called us to be soldiers." There are many things, consulting his own feelings, a good soldier would rather not do, but love for his country compels him to do his duty bravely. There is no room in this world of sin and stern reality for those who vainly strive for the romance of Christian work. There is the loud call for prompt action in practical duty; and if we are not in the line of such work, we are but cumberers of the ground.—Y. M. C. A. Bulletin.