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  USEFUL LIFE
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: Living a righteous and useful life brings joy to God and echoes
the harmony of heaven.

Topics: "Righteous Living", "Obedience To God"
Scripture References: Isaiah 51:3, Ephesians 5:19, Philippians 2:5, Colossians 3:16, Revelation 5:13

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the beauty of living a righteous and
useful life, emphasizing the importance of doing our duties cheerfully
and orderly in the place where God has positioned us. She compares the
sweet melody created by a life of obedience to God to the harmonious
melodies of heaven, highlighting the significance of humbly following
the example of Christ in all aspects of our lives.

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Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of
melody.

ISAIAH 51:3

If thou art living a righteous and a useful life, doing thy duty orderly
and cheerfully where God has put thee, then thou art making sweeter
melody in the ears of the Lord Jesus Christ, than if thou hadst the
throat of a nightingale; for then thou in thy humble place art copying
the everlasting harmony and melody which is in heaven.

CHARLES KINGSLEY

IN proportion as the perfect obedience of the life of Christ comes,
through humility and prayer and thought, to be the constant aim of all
our efforts; in proportion as we try, God helping us, to think and speak
and act as He did, and through all the means of grace to sanctify Him in
our hearts; we shall, with growing hope and with a wonder that is ever
lost in gratitude, know that even our lives are not without the earnest
of their rest in an eternal harmony; that through them there is sounding
more and more the echo of a faultless music: and that He who loves that
concord, He who alone can ever make us what He bids us be, will silence
in us every harsh and jarring note; that our service too may blend with
the consenting praise of all His Saints and Angels.

FRANCIS PAGET

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/useful-life/
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