Few men know how to live. We grow up at random carrying into mature
life the merely animal methods and motives which we had as little
children. And it does not occur to us that all this must be changed;
that much of it must be reversed; that life is the finest of the Fine
Arts; that it has to be learned with lifelong patience, and that the
years of our pilgrimage are all too short to master it triumphantly.
Yet this is what Christianity is for--to teach men
THE ART OF LIFE.
And its whole curriculum lies in one word--"Learn of me." Unlike most
education, this is almost purely personal; it is not to be had from
books, or lectures or creeds or doctrines. It is a study from the
life. Christ never said much in mere words about the Christian graces.
He lived them, He was them. Yet we do not merely copy Him. We learn
His art by living with Him, like the old apprentices with their
masters.
Now we understand it all? Christ's invitation to the weary and
heavy-laden is a call to begin life over again upon a new
principle--upon His own principle.
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