We should be willing to spend and be spent in his service, saying, 'Lord, may thy will be done by me on earth, even as it is by the angels in heaven.' So you may expect to see his face with joy, and say, 'Here am I, Lord, and all the souls thou hast given me.' "It seems wonderful that we should neglect any opportunity of doing good, when there is, if it be done from love to God and his creatures, a present reward of grace, in reflecting that we are using the talents committed to our care, according to the power and ability which we receive from him.

God requires not what he has not promised to give.
But when we look back, and reflect that there have been opportunities in which we have neglected to take up our cross and speak and act for God, what a dejection of mind we feel! We are then justly filled with shame.

Conscious of being ashamed of Christ, we cannot come with that holy boldness to a throne of grace, nor feel that free access when we make our supplications.
"We are commanded to provoke one another to love and good works; and where two are agreed together in the things of God, they may say,-- 'And if our fellowship below In Jesus be so sweet, What heights of rapture shall we know When round the throne we meet!' "Sir, I hope Mrs.--- and you are both of one heart and one mind.

Then you will sweetly agree in all things that make for your present and eternal happiness.

Christ sent his disciples out, not singly, but two and two, that they might comfort and help each other in those ways and works which their Lord commanded them to pursue.
"It has been my lot to have been alone the greatest part of the time that I have known the ways of God.