WHAT CONSTITUTES
itual life in this world. Here is the main test of the right or wrong of all occupations, all actions, as well as all motives. As to an action, this law bids us ask, "is it of use or service?" As to the motive, "am I doing it from a regard to service or use, or am I wholly indifferent about the service to others, so it ministers to my selfish ends?" And this motive of being of service in his occupation joins heaven and earth in every person.
There are, of course, all kinds of uses or services—higher and lower, heavenly and earthly; uses for soul, mind, body; uses positive and negative, or those always necessary to human advancement and those permissible only on account of human frailty.
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