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...first appearance gives new strength and knowledge for the next opportunity. It may not be done wisely or well but if with all one's strength and skill it will surely bring one nearer to perfection. The Gospels are vital through the activity that moves in them. Christ said "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you," and His words and life teach one energy in doing good that swallows up such negative satisfaction as lies in mere now - commission...
...bear their burdens and gives them strength to do right. The fifth is that there is one Character in history which surpasses everything else in the world, from whom came infinite impulse and inspiration that have more and more moulded life since His time. This Character is Jesus Christ...
...history there is only one opening through which God has been clearly seen - the life of Christ. He conquered evil and the world is being re-created. To those who do not see that God's thoughts are as far above man's as the heaven is above the earth, sin may seem dying too slowly. To the pessimist it may even seem gaining strength, but to the Christian, God's purposes are revealed in Christ. He sees the beauty and stainlessness of that character gaining the victory in the world and the new creation advancing when the world, concerning...
...conception that many men have of Christ's character is a one sided - one. In consequence they feel a condict between their religion and every-day life. They really long to be like the strongest men-of-the-world and to excel in vigor and energy, and they pray to be like one whom they think of as all gentleness. This state of things is palpably wrong, but it results merely from a mistake. The whole remedy lies simply in realizing that the greatest strength the world ever saw underlay the grace of Christ's soul. None but a gigantic...
...need to become weak, to be like Christ, but to temper their strength with love and purity, and to realize that the lips which could terrify the guilty were the greatest to comfort the weak, that the hands which could endure the nails of the cross were the readiest to hold the little child and to clasp together in prayer...