The Career Before You

But now the race is only begun. It would be lamentable indeed, if you should subside into listlessiiess, as if the great object of your life was attained, because you have been accredited as a member of the Church. in full communion; or even because you

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may have enjoyed some manifestations of Divine favour at the Lord’s Table. There lies before you an immense work, which is to terminate only with your earthly career. “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him.“* You are now enrolled among the people of God. See that your behaviour be accordant vnth that sacred relation; “that ye may walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, increasing in the knowledge of God.”f Reflect continually, not only that the eyes of the world, and the eyes of fellow-Christians are upon you, but that the adorable Redeemer himself looks down upon you, and demands the consecration of your life. The reverse of all this is lamentably manifest in many young professors, who are seen to relax rather than to quicken their spiritual pace, after having entered juto church-bonds.

‘^(hl 1- & t Col. 1: 10.