You-will remember that our Lord always favoured illustrations from the market, when speaking of the Kingdom of God in relation to the individual. He emphatically; re-Yenled a. wage-paying God, Where our fathers went astray was postponing and externalizing those wages." But ft is God's will that his Servants should not goat their own charges, "He gives them "the wages jot going on" aa Tennyson put it in Tunes not quite free from ambiguity.
"The wages, of sin is death; if the wanes intue be dents Would the have heart to anda for the life of the worm ud"
She desires no isles of the alef seats of the Jon To feat ina olden grove) or to bask Give Neth ages of ning on and The poet seems to be saying ove things here; frst that God does withhold. wages from His ser-Fanta, but those wages are paid in The continuance and extension in the finer apprehen-that is in fellowship It is clear that there are two kinds wages—the one to maintain our nce, paid to the pocket, the other to sustain our true life, paid to the conscience.
The Artist's View On which kind are you setting your affections and founding your ambition? With some folk "the question is not so difficult to answer. Artists and craftsmen, naturalists, musicians, visionaries of various kinds enjoy their wages in the faithful pursuit of God's manifestations n the Beauty and Truth of things. But what about us common folk? It is for us to recall that there is a way of faith and love where the children of God may be equally satisfied. In any of God's ways you meet with His wages, but the highway that all can find Christ.
Never give up religion, which means secking and taking the wages. of God, For if you lose that clue to life, you come to set your heart fon earthly wages, and that begets ty, greed, discontent, jealousy ton the large scale But. the Christian alves the artist-view of life, the power of fixing the mind on the invisible and of making common things beautiful. Christ himself was not independent of. earthly wages which he earned as carpenter of Nazareth, but even there he really lived on what came to him from God, on what faith enabled him to see and love enabled him to do.
So rich was he with the wages of trusting and doing the will of God that he was able to repair man's bankruptey. "Come unto Me," said "and I will give you res T give unto my joy shall you." Life's real wages can paid by princesses oF Pharaohs, for they can only be received in' the conscience and heart. But Christ can teach us the great art of life to live by the unfailing wages of God.
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