No one who has begun to build for Christ should leave an unfinished, abandoned life-work to grieve the heart of the Master and to be sneered at as a reproach to the name he bears.
Yet we must remember, lest we be discouraged, that only in a relative, human sense can any life-building be made altogether complete.

Our best work is marred and imperfect.

It is only when we are in Christ, and are co-workers with him, that anything we do can ever be made perfect and beautiful.

But the weakest, and the humblest, who are simply faithful, will stand at last complete in him.

Even the merest fragment of life, as it appears in men's eyes, if it be truly in Christ, and filled with his love and with his Spirit, will appear finished, when presented before the divine Presence.