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unto Him. And so every where in the kingdom of God, service is rest, and rest is service, and there is no true rest beside. The laying aside of responsibility is by no means rest. It is adding a thorn to your crown. Duty and responsibility never end. Christ did not say, after all His scouragings, and sorrows, and sacrifice, "I have done enough for the race now, I will sit down and rest." Ah! Christ never ended his work until He could say upon the cross "It is finished", and then forever sat down at the right-hand of God. {crossed out: Bretheren] However He may regard it, it is evident that the stepping aside from duty to-day, because one did nobly yesterday, is [scratched out: to my mind] a great dishonor to God. You who have tried it know, that a life of neglect and willful indifference to the cause of Jesus, after it has once been espoused is a life of disobedience and consequent unrest. Your souls once pillowed on the bosom of Jesus, [crossed out: because] are being