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I. IT IS POSSIBLE TO SECULARISE THE SACRED. When sacred service is entered upon from secular motives; when it is performed in a perfunctory manner; when any object less than God is regarded in its performance. An unhallowed hand may not bear up an ark. A cowl does not make a monk. High office cannot elevate a base man.

II. IT IS NECCESSARY TO MAKE THE SECULAR SACRED. "He can who thinks he can." Application

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1. The secret of contentment. "Self-humiliation is full of truth and reality."

2. The law of growth. Be thy ambition to become pure in thought and feeling, strong in resolve and deed. Serve. Care not how, mind not where.

(Homiletic Commentary.)

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Parallel Verses

KJV: And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.

WEB: and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;