Our Reasonable Service

ALLEN L. CLARK.

If , to use the words of the Psalmist, we are dwelling "in the secret place of the most High," and are not merely resorting to it when the occasion seems to require, then we shall experience that peaceful sense of abiding "under the shadow of the Almighty."

Jesus said, in the Sermon on the Mount. "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly," and we read in Science and Health, "The habitual struggle to be always good, is unceasing prayer" (page 4).

This, "unceasing prayer," this constant dwelling "in the secret place of the most High," is the reasonable service which we, as followers of Truth, are expected to give. And for this perpetual service we have a beautiful promise given in the fifteenth chapter of John's gospel, "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."

Were we to struggle habitually to be good we would not be asking ourselves, "How shall I know when God is leading?" for we should come naturally and instinctively to recognize that leading and no other. How apt are these words of Henry Drummond, "Probably the most of the difficulties of trying to live the Christian life arise from attempting to half live it."

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