1 Corinthians 16:5-9 - Homilies By E. Hundall

Words to those who travel.

I. WE SHOULD ALWAYS BE ON OUR MASTER 'S BUSINESS . This we may be if we are engaged in "secular" affairs. Every part of life is to be consecrated to God. A Christian is a Christian always, and a servant always. Everything may be consecrated. Whether we eat or drink, or whatever we do, we may do all to the glory of God. Secular engagements become truly sacred if in them

To do this as we travel, we should

These are often very numerous and strong when we are away from our usual surroundings, and not amongst those who know us. We should embrace every opportunity of doing good. Not only to men in things temporal, but also in things spiritual. At last it will seem marvellous to some that their "cheerily" and "love" extended only to men's lower needs.

II. OUR MOVEMENTS SHOULD BE ORDERED OF THE LORD .

1. In secular affairs we should seek the mind of the Lord. He who can help us in the great can help us in the small. There is nothing too insignificant to pray over.

2. In sacred affairs we need ever say, "If the Lord permit." "D.V." on a bill amounts to little; we need it engraved on the heart.

3. Those who, evangelizing, pass from place to place will do well to study the conduct of their apostolic prototype.

(a) comfort,

(b) applause,

(c) remuneration,

(d) predilection.

Some communities have attempted to sterotype the mind of the Lord in a three years' pastorate; this looks more like the mind of man than the mind of the Lord. Some divines can only hear certain, "calls" of the Lord: it is to be feared that these "calls" are, after all, nothing more than the echoes of their own voices.—H.