| The Joy of Service |
Chapter 13 |
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There is a wonderful word of Scripture which speaks of a Christian’s life as being hid with Christ in God. What a blessed place this is, how warm and safe, how impregnably sheltered! Men seem ambitious to rush into the world where they must meet peril. But it is wiser far to avoid the danger of sin unless duty calls us to go into it. It is thus that the Master taught us to live in thins world, when He bade us pray, “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” We ought to fear the evil, and should be willing to meet temptation only when it comes in the path of duty in which God leads us. It is better to seek to dwell in the secret place of the Most High than out in the streets amid life’s dangers.
“I would rather be
Neath a greenwood tree,
With a song and a handful of daisies,
Than the darling of victory
‘Mid the bray of the rabble’s praises,
“I would rather ride
On the wings inside,
Where the hoofs and the horns come not after,
Than fold loud Fame as a bride,
Roughed Fame, with her leer and her laughter.”
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