'The art of true living'
The art of true living
"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might!" Ecclesiastes 9:10
Duty never is a haphazard thing; it does not come to us in bundles from which we may choose what we like best. There are never a half-dozen things, either one of which we may fitly do at any particular time.
There is someone definite and particular thing in the Divine purpose for each moment.
The art of true living , therefore, consists largely in doing always the thing which belongs to the moment. But how to know what is the duty of each moment, is a question which to many is full of perplexity.
Yet it would be easy if our obedience were but more simple. We have but to take the duty that comes next to our hand — that which the moment brings.
"Do you next thing!" says the quaint old Saxon legend. Our duty is never some far-away thing. We do not have to search for it; it is always close at hand, and easily found.