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The solution of the problem of sanctification
is compressed into a sentence: Reflect the character of Christ.
You will be changed, in spite of yourself and unknown to yourself,
into the same image from character to character.
(I.) All men are reflectors--that is
The first law
on which this formula is based. One of the aptest descriptions of
a human being is that he is a mirror. As we sat at table to-night
the world in which each of us lived and moved through this day was
focused in the room. What we saw when we looked at one another was
not one another, but one another's world. We were an arrangement
of mirrors. The scenes we saw were all reproduced; the people we
met walked to and fro; they spoke, they bowed, they passed us by,
did everything over again as if it had been real. When we talked,
we were but looking at our own mirror and describing what flitted
across it; our listening was not hearing, but seeing--we but looked
on our neighbor's mirror.
All human intercourse is a seeing of reflections. I meet a stranger
in a railway carriage. The cadence of his first words tell me he
is English and comes from Yorkshire. Without knowing it he has
reflected his birthplace, his parents, and the long history of their
race. Even physiologically he is a mirror.
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