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Holy Work for Christmas

Charles Spurgeon Edited By GEOFF CHANG

And the shepherds returned , glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen , as it had been told them . Luke 2:20
“ The shepherds returned ,” we read in the twentieth verse , “ glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen , as it had been told them .” Returned to what ? Returned to business to look after the lambs and sheep again . Then if we desire to glorify God we need not give up our business . Some people get the notion into their heads that the only way in which they can live for God is by becoming ministers , missionaries , or Bible women . Alas ! how many of us would be shut out from any
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