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Christ never asks for anything we cannot do. But let us not forget that he always does expect and require of each of us the best we can do. The faithfulness Christ wants and approves implies the doing of all our work, our business, our trade, our daily toil, as well as we can. Let no one think that religion does not apply to private life. It applies to the way you do your most common work just as really as to your praying and keeping of the commandments. Whatever your duty is, you cannot be altogether faithful to God unless you do your best. To slur any task is to do God’s work badly. To neglect it is to rob God. The universe is not quite complete without your work well done, however small that work may be.
The faithfulness which Christ requires must reach also to everything we do. It takes in the way the child gets his lessons and recites them, the way the dressmaker and the tailor sew their seams, the way the blacksmith welds the iron and shoes the horse, the way the plumber puts in his pipes, the way the carpenter builds the house, the way the clerk represents the goods, and measures or weights them. How soon it would put a stop to all dishonesty, all fraud, all skimping, all false weights and measures, all shams, all neglects of duty, if this lesson were only learned and practiced everywhere!