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 life before them as an end to be obtained. There is power in the affirmation and desire that it may be attained, while there is weakness in the negation that business and religion can never be reconciled, and that human nature cannot be changed. If the prayer that the kingdom of God may come and His will be done on earth as in heaven means anything, it means, or involves, the effort to live, or strive to live, as we pray. Instead of the attitude of negation, let the business man take the affirmative stand, and say, "business and religion may and shall be reconciled; I will keep on trying; I will do a little better to-day than yesterday; I will think more of service, and less of reward; I will substitute greater intelligence,