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Show William Thurston Brown has it all, what at it has meant and always will mean for such only your life purpose, what and is simply Religion living for. It can't be less than that. It can't be something for Sunday and churches and rites and forms. It cannot be less than the thing you live for. That is religion. And the really religious man does not live by the standards men. you or are values which He lives even a by truth, or men these prominence, of life standard which is a lifetime, but for far real need of though temporary kind of social order gives. some as are or they to serve and more women a day or a He sees place power, which are quite are the making of men with all one year or that the is not bread and butter necessary in their as - nor - wealth, often the but to or undoing know the has of power or ability some cause the happiness and good of all. purpose which means That describes the life and and in for than that. not career of Jesus. At no time for him dependent way happiness upon any event that might befall him. It wasn't necessary for him to succeed in business, to hold office, to gain power. He not It no only didn't or success was did seem succeed in business, but he didn't try. worth while to him, because he knew not something infinitely better than that. There is now and always something infinitely better than that. He had nowhere to lay his head, but there isn't a man or woman doesn't know that the life and career in the world who of Jesus was incom parably better worthwhile than that of any man in all history who has owned palaces or princely estates. Isn't that true? Jesus had only one object in living: to bear witness to the truth. If he hadn't known a truth of such all-embracing worth, of such unspeakable value, that without it the world would not be worth while, he never would have been heard of. What was was his life? that truth? His own life is the What made him what he was? answer. Shall What we say: 219 |
