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A flower blooms no more sweetly because it is gazed at by an admiring crowd. It would be just as lovely if it grew in the depths of a great forest where no eye ever saw it. The stars look down with as much brilliancy into the desert, where no one looks up at them, as into the streets of the great city where thousands behold them. The sea breaks with as much majesty on an uninhabited shore as where its waves kiss the feet of multitudes. So it is in all true Christian life and work. When one is doing any fine thing, and shows by his air that he is conscious of it, more than half the fineness is gone from the performance. When a man knows that he is living a life that is very beautiful in its service and sacrifice, when he is conscious that he is a winsome Christina, much of the glory is gone from his life. We should live just as sweetly and beautifully when no one is looking upon us to see our deed and praise our life, as when all the world is beholding. The eye of God is ever upon us, and it is his approval and commendation that we should always seek to deserve.