Excerpt...Stepping Heavenward

There are a couple of excerpts that I just want to write down so that I have further opportunity to meditate upon them. I don't want them to get away from me as they did when I first read this little book.

"Every businessman, in short, every man leading an active life ought to read that," he said. "We should have a new order of things as the result. Instead of fancying that our ordinary daily work was one thing and our religion quite another thing, we should transmute our drudgery into acts of worship. Instead of going to prayer meetings to get into a 'good frame,' we should live in a good frame from morning till night, from night till morning; and prayer and praise would be only another form for expressing the love and faith and obedience we had been exercising amid the pressure of business." ~ Katy, May 24th, Stepping Heavenward, E. Prentiss

"Yes, I am tired," she said, "but what of that? It is only a question of days now, and all my tired feelings will be over. Then I shall be as young and as fresh as ever and shall have strength to praise and to love God as I cannot do now. But before I go, I want once more to tell you how good He is, how blessed it is to suffer with Him, how infinitely happy He has made me in the very hottest heat of the furnace. It will strengthen you in your trials to recall this my dying testimony. There is no wilderness so dreary but that His love can illuminate it, no desolation so desolate but that He can sweeten it. I know what I am saying. It is no delusion. I believe that the highest, purest happiness is known only to those who have learned Christ in sickrooms, in poverty, in racking suspence and anxiety, amid hardships, and at the open grave." ...."To learn Christ, this is life." ~Mrs. Campbell, June 2nd, Stepping Heavenward, E. Prentiss

Be blessed,