In Green Pastures

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October 9


Religion in the Common Days

One of the most harmful practical errors of common Christian living is the cutting of life into two sections — a religious and a secular section. We acknowledge God in the religious part. We fence off days and little spaces of time in each day which we profess to give to worship, devotion. But the danger is that we confine our acknowledging of God to these set times and seasons, while we shut him out of our real life. That is not true religion which prays well, and soars away into celestial raptures and holy dreams, while it has no effect on one's daily common life down here in the paths of toil and duty. We should have our visions, but we must bring them down into our earthly experience and make them real there.

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