by J. R. Miller
in ePub, .mobi & .pdf formats
It may be that this little book will be accepted of the Master and sent by him on a mission of helpfulness to some struggling lives. It is now laid humbly at his feet with this simple hope. Its aim is to help young Christians especially, to take the religion of Christ out of closet and sanctuary and creed—and get it into their daily lives of toil, temptation and care! Perhaps none of us get the best that we might get from our relation to Christ. Perhaps none of us, if any, live as well as we believe. The moralities that we know—we do not follow. The helps that are put into our hands—we do not use when we are climbing the hard, steep paths, or staggering under the burdens of life. The comforts that religion gives—do not comfort us in sorrow.
Many of us think of Christianity as a system of doctrine and worship only—and too little as a life. The aim of this book is to show how doctrine should become life; how promises should be rod and staff in the climber's hand; and how the Sunday-life should pour itself through all the week-days, making every hour bright with the radiance of heaven. It is dedicated to those who sincerely want to follow all the Scriptural precepts; and to realize in their own experience, all the joys, inspirations and comforts of true religion, and to fulfill in this world the meaning of life in all its splendor and possibility.
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Table of Contents
Dedicatory
1. What Is Your Life
2. Getting Help from the Bible
3. Practical Consecration
4. How to Live a Beautiful Christian Life
5. The Cure for Care
6. Glimpses at Life's Windows
7. The Marriage Altar, and after
8. Religion in the Home
9. The Ministry of Sorrow
10. As unto the Lord
11. Humility and Responsibility
12. Not to Be Ministered Unto
13. Weariness in Well-doing
14. Wayside Ministries
15. The Beauty of Quiet Lives
16. Kindness That Comes Too Late
17. The Duty of Encouragement
18. On Loving Others
19. Thoughtfulness and Tact
20. Mutual Forbearance
21. Manly Men
22. Books and Reading
23. Personal Beauty
24. Taking Cheerful Views
25. Something about Amusements
26. On the Choice of Friends
27. The Ethics of Home-decoration
28. Pictures in the Heart
29. Losses
30. The Service of Consecration
31. Beautiful Old Age
32. Unconscious Farewells