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 ful works  done  by  each  person  in  our  behalf — the works of  creation,  redemption  and  sanctification,  but also to  teach  men  to  observe  all  things  whatsoever Christ has  commanded. So there,  in  brief,  is  the whole system  of  man's  salvation,  the  Trinity  above directing all— «God's  Church  and  her  ministers  on earth  teaching  her  children,  by  sermons  and  instructions, what  they  must  believe,  and  showing  them  by example  what  they  must  do  to  be  saved,  and  finally the great  throng  of  God's  people,  bound  to  accept God's revealed  truths,  and  so  shape  their  lives  in  accordance with  them,  that  they  may  one  day  be among  the  blessed  who  have  both  heard  the  word  of God  and  kept  it. Brethren, are  we  doing  all  this? Am I  living  the  life  and  doing  the  work  of  a  faithful minister of  God? Are you  doing  your  whole  duties as children  of  God  and  heirs  of  heaven? Alas and alack, are  we  not  each  individually  and  all  together one grand  colossal  spiritual  failure,  with  only  one , consolation  for  the  present,  only  one  hope  for  the future — the thought  that  the  Trinity  loved  us  from the beginning,  loves  us  now,  and  will  continue  to  love us without  end  in  eternity? But if  the  thought  of God's  infinite  love  and  goodness  to  us  tails  to  excite us to  do  something  in  honor  of  the  Trinity  and  in  return for  the  blessings  they  have  bestowed  on  us,  let this other  thought  sink  deeply  into  our  minds,  that the day  will  infallibly  come  for  you,  aye,  and  for  me too,  when  we  shall  stand  in  the  presence  of  that  Trinity to  give  an  account  of  our  stewardship — I,  if  I have  faithfully  by  word  and  example  taught  Christ's