It means that He suggested nothing in all our
thoughts, that He inspired nothing in all our lives, that we were
not once near enough to Him to be seized with the spell of His
compassion for the world. It means that---
"I lived for myself, I thought for myself,
For myself, and none beside--
Just as if Jesus had never lived,
As if He had never died."
Thank God the Christianity of today is coming nearer the world's
need. Live to help that on. Thank God men know better, by a hair's
breadth, what religion is, what God is, who Christ is, where Christ
is. Who is Christ? He who fed the hungry, clothed the naked,
visited the sick. And where is Christ? Where?--"Whoso shall receive
a little child in My name receiveth Me.' And who are Christ's?
"Every one that loveth is born of God."
Lessons from the Angelus.
God often speaks to men's souls through music; He also speaks to
us through art. Millet's famous painting entitled "The Angelus"
is an illuminated text, upon which I am going to say a few words
to you to-night.
There are three things in this picture--a potato field, a country
lad and a country girl standing in the middle of it, and on the
far horizon the spire of a village church. That is all there is to
it--no great scenery and no picturesque people.
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