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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.

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-Our days are like the lines and spaces in the musical staff — and our duties are the notes. Each life is meant to be a perfect harmony, and in order to this, each single duty has its own proper place.
+"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might!" Ecclesiastes 9:10
-One thing done out of its time and place, makes discord in the music of life — just as one note misplaced on the staff mars the harmony.
+Duty never is a haphazard thing; it does not come to us in bundles from which we may choose what we like best.
-Our life is a building , and the little acts are the materials used; the whole is in its own true place. Everything is beautiful in its time — but out of time, the loveliest acts lose much of their loveliness.
+There are never a half-dozen things, either one of which we may fitly do at any particular time.
-The art of true living , therefore, consists largely in doing always the thing that 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.
+There is someone definite and particular thing in the Divine purpose for each moment.
-We have but to take the duty that comes next to our hand — that which the moment brings.
+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.
-Our duty is never some faraway thing. The trouble is, that we complicate the question of duty for ourselves, by our way of looking at life — and then get our feet entangled in the meshes which our own hands have woven!
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