THE
MINNCSOTA WORKER.
“Whatsoever thy Hand findeth to do, do it with thy Might.”
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OUR LIFE.
Do we fully comprehend the meaning of it, and
for what object it is given us? Such questions
naturally force themselves upon those who have
reached the meridian of life, and whose experiences
up the rugged pathway have taught the stern lesson
that life means something.
In the earlier years of existence while the world
seems bright and beautiful, before the evil days
come, all is new and untried before us. Experience
has not taught us that ‘‘all is not gold that glitters”,
nor that every plausable theory will not bear the test
of practical development.
Some are so unfortunate as to go all through life
chasing some will-o-the-wisp, in the vain hope of at-
taining fame or fortune—an abnormal desire to ob-
tain something without rendering an equivalent
therefor. ‘The fact is, that rarely any good thing is
accomplished or victories won without earnest,
painstaking effort.
The hidden treasures of earth are found only by
digging deep through rock and clay ; so the life that
is most successful here is the one that digs deep into
the mines of truth and appropriates those truths to
every day life. So many lives are misspent because
there seems to be no particular aim or object in view.
An aimless life is a useless one. Fach life is in-
timately connected with other lives, so woven into
the warp and woof of the great web of humanity that
other lives are dependent on, and influenced by, our
life. Eternity alone will reveal the effect our in-
fluence has exerted on our fellow men. How many
human souls will enjoy the happiness of the earth
made new, or be forever damned, on account of my
influence for good or evil ?
© Will my child or your child be forever lost be-
cause the chord that bound their heart and life to
mine or yours did not draw them to the source of all
life? Could each soul appreciate the value and re-
sponsibility of a life, as God does, would there not
be more earnest effort put forth, and a deeper heart
searching to know and do God’s will that others may
be drawn to the fountain of which if a man drink he
shall never thirst again?
“The life is more than the food, and the body
than the raiment”. There is danger that even the
Christian value the food and clothing, that assists
in sustaining the life, more than the life itself. The
Master designed to teach his followers that the
author of their existence would see to it that their
body would be properly clothed and fed without liv-
ing in careful suspense as to what they should eat or
wear.
The sin of eating and drinking and ostenatious
display of clothing has brought ruin to more human
souls than all other sins combined.
Many good people are really more concerned and
take more anxious thought about what they shall eat,
drink, and wear than about their soul’s salvation,
To them, self gratification for a passing 1inoment is
of more value than an eternal home of happiness.
The very thing that seems to conduce to happiness,
is the identical thing that brings misery and untold
suffering.
Finally ‘a man’s life consisteth not in the
abundance of the things which he possesseth”. One’s
possessions are not his life, although many a man
has bestowed his life energy upon the accumulation
of possessions in the vain hope that it would give the
possessor happiness and comforts of life ; but in the
end brought unhappiness and death.
The pages of history are filled with examples
showing that inorndinate ambition for wealth and in-
creased burden in caring for property, instead of
giving more life has shortened this temoral life and
ruined the prospects for the future one. God does
not desire that this should be so; and consequently
the loving Father, knowing the evil tendency in the
nature of his children, warns them to be not over
anxious about the temporal wants of the body. As
he values the lives of his children much more than
the birds which he clothes and feeds and which have
no “store chamber nor barn”, will he not supply all
they need-—not all they want but all they need ?
This teaching does not give license to indolence
or idleness, for we are admonished to be “not sloth-
ful in business, but fervent in spirit serving the
Tord”. Life means work. And, whether we realize
it or not, we are living in a world in which our acts
start results that go on and on through eternity ;