hall call your attention is your daily
employment, and by that I mean the method by which you earn your
livelihood. Or, supposing that, having some independent means of
support, you are not compelled to labour for your daily bread, then
I shall point out that special form of work, the doing of which
Providence has plainly made to be your duty. Because it is
difficult to conceive of any Salvationist who has not some regular
employment, for which he holds himself responsible to God

"Work is a good thing, my comrades. To be unemployed is generally
counted an evil--any way, it is so in the case of a poor man; but
it seems to me that the obligation to be engaged in some
honourable and useful kind of labour is as truly devolved upon the
rich as upon the poor, perhaps more so. Work is necessary to the
well-being of men and women of every class, everywhere. To be
voluntarily idle, in any rank or condition of life, is to be a
curse to others and to be accursed yourself.

"You would utterly condemn me if you thought that I engaged in my
work in The Army merely to make a good show, or for some personal
profit, and did not care about what God thought of the matter. My
comrades, there are not two different standards of work--one for
you and one for me. You must, therefore, be under the same
obligation to do your work in the house or in the mine or in the
warehouse, or wherever the Providence of God has placed you" to
please your Heavenly Master, as I am on the platform, in the
council chamber, or wherever my duty may call me.

"But here another question arises. Do you accept Jesus Christ as
your Master in the affairs of your daily life? If not, of course,
this part of my argument will be thrown away; but if you do, then
it will be the most powerful of all.

"At the commencement of His ministry, Jesus Christ announced that
He was about to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on the earth. By
the Kingdom of Heaven He meant a Kingdom consisting of heavenly
government, heavenly laws, heavenly obedience, heavenly power,
heavenly love, heavenly joy. These, taken together, constitute the
chief characteristics of this Kingdom, and instead of being
confined, as it had been hitherto, to a handful of people in
Jerusalem and Judea, it was to cover the whole earth.