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 said that  day,  and  lays  upon  every  Christian altar my  work  and  my  play,  my  words  and thoughts, my  pains  and  sorrows,  my  delights and joys,  and  every  conscious  action  of  my will  —  always  excepting  that  which  is  sinful, and so  unacceptable,  incapable  of  entering into holy  union  with  the  oblation  of  the  body and blood  of  my  Saviour. When I  lie  down to rest  at  night,  I  may  ask  myself:  ^Of  all that I  have  done  to-day,  of  all  my  goings  and comings, what  shall  endure  to  my  eternal good? What have  I  laid  up  in  the  form  of treasure  for  heaven? ' And,  provided  I  have spent the  day  in  the  state  of  grace  I  may answer: '  All  and  every  one  of  my  deliberate acts of  will  that  were  right  in  themselves,  and, very signally  and  specially,  all  that  has received the  consecration  of  my  Morning Offering/ Of  my  strivings  after  the  good things of  this  life,  some  will  succeed,  others will fail:  but  alike  in  success  and  failure, practising the  Apostleship  of  Prayer,  I  may take to  myself  the  Apostle's  consoling  words: 'Be ye  steadfast  and  immovable,  always abounding in  the  work  of  the  Lord,  knowing that your  labor  is  not  vain  in  the  Lord'" (i  Cor.  XV.  58).