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thing and everything that leads us from the service of God according to Christ's saying: " He that is not with Me is against Me." True, the legitimate management of worldly affairs is not incompatible with the service of God, provided the laborer be so disposed that whatever he do, he does for God. A soul adorned with God's grace, and united to Christ's Church by faith and hope and love, and doing all from the higher motive of pleasing God, is really in its commonest actions working in the vineyard of the Lord. Such a laborer glorifies his work, changing a curse into a blessing even as Christ sanctified our tribulations by bearing the thorns of earth upon His sacred brow. All other labors are but wasted energy and outside the vineyard, and will count for nothing on the great pay day. St. Paul employs the figure of a race-course and urges us all to run so as to obtain the prize. The first condition of success is to be entered for the race — to fight the battle on the course, and not where you will, in some neighboring field. God is the generous Giver of the prize, and His it is to settle when and where and how the work be done, the race be run. Nor does it for the prize suffice to work and run; we must work and run right well, for adverbs and not verbs are crowned. The rich young man ran eagerly to Jesus' feet, but missed the prize he sought, for he ran not well, encumbered with his riches as he was. He essayed the impossible, viz., to serve two masters. He fain would work at once outside and in the vineyard, or at the same time run a race on two far different tracks. Oh how many