Now the business of our lives
is to have these things fitted into our characters. That is the
supreme work to which we need to address ourselves in this world,
to learn Love. Is life not full of opportunities for learning
Love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The
world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a
holiday, but an education. And
The one eternal lesson
for us all is HOW BETTER WE CAN LOVE.
What makes a man a good cricketer? Practice. What makes a man
a good artist, a good sculptor, a good musician? Practice. What
makes a man a good linguist, a good stenographer? Practice. What
makes a man a good man? Practice. Nothing else. There is nothing
capricious about religion. We do not get the soul in different
ways, under different laws, from those in which we get the body
and the mind. If a man does not exercise his arm he develops no
biceps muscle; and if a man does not exercise his soul, he acquires
no muscle in his soul, no strength of character, no vigor of
moral fibre, no beauty of spiritual growth. Love is not a thing
of enthusiastic emotion. It is a rich, strong, manly, vigorous
expression of the whole round Christian character--the Christlike
nature in its fullest development.
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