"These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work." -1 CHRON. iv
A LOWLIER task on them is laid,
With love to make the labour light;
And there their beauty they must shed
On quiet homes, and lost to sight.
Changed are their visions high and fair,
Yet, calm and still, they labour there.
-HYMNS OF THE AGES
ANYWHERE and everywhere we may dwell 'with the King for His work'. We may be in a very unlikely or unfavourable place for this; it may be in a literal country life, with little enough to be seen of the 'goings' of the King around us; it may be among hedges of all sorts, hindrances in all directions; it may be furthermore, with our hands full of a manner of pottery for our daily task. No matter! The King who placed us 'there' will come and dwell there with us; the hedges are all right or He would soon do away with them; and it does not follow that what seems to hinder our way may not be for its very protection; and as for the pottery, why, that is just exactly what He has seen fit to put into our hands, and therefore it is, for the present, 'His work'.
-F. R. HAVERGAL
