this world, but because it is sin against the Most High.
Never let a servant consider his situation degrading. However diversified our duties may be, there is nothing dishonourable or degrading that is useful. We are placed as mutual helps, and the great Householder, in dispensing to us our several employments, does so with consummate wisdom; all we have to do, is to obey his Divine command, and "occupy till He come." Do not envy those who occupy what are called superior stations, and be not cast down at thé lowliness of your own.
"The storm
That makes the high elm crack, and bends the oak,
The humble lily spares. A thousand blows
That shake the monarch on the throne
We humble folk feel not."
As it regards the real man—the soul—there is no difference in station in the sight of the Most High. The seraph and the angel, the master and the servant, are beheld by the great Redeemer alike as his children; and he gives to his children such employments as are most suitable. Whether, therefore, we be kings and priests within the temple, or whether we be doorkeepers in the house of our God, we are still the children of God; and who shall separate us from His love? This is a most undoubted truth: "Every one that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of Him."
