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Show My Thoughts Are Not Still 287 As a genuine follower of Christ, she would unequivocally be classed as a disciple of virtue of her love for people and her desire to help them to become their best selves, her by willingness to serve in His cause, by her inspired teaching of His gospel, by her self-control and self-mastery, by her quest for truth, and by her exercise of the Sermon-on-the Mount qualities Some souls command one's respect just being in their pres ence. In our and upward grasping searching, to associate with such a person renews our hope and faith that what Christ wants us to become is possible through concerted effort. .... To be esteemed one of her many friends is at once a great honor and a responsibility. She is the most unforgettable person we have ever met. In fact, she is our ideal. 21 IV On her sixtieth birthday, March 1, 1961, to make greater use were away from Madelyn resolved of her literary skills. All of her children home-Elizabeth and Judith were married and their own rearing children; Barnard was in Hawaii working on the perfection of his father's sugar and Brian cane-machinery, Harvard studying world literature. Madelyn knew she had creative skills and wanted to use them. Four poems came to her mind as she focussed on the now opportunity presented to her: Thanatopsis, by William Cullen Bryant, written when he was sixteen with the message that though inevitably to be claimed by nature, a person with thoughts of the last bitter hour must conduct her life so that she will have no fear when her summons comes to join the "innumerable caravan." The second, "Rabbi Ben Ezra" by Robert Browning, written in middle age, expresses the view that the soul is immortal, something that Madelyn believed; life is but the fashioning of the pot for the Master's hand: was at Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage, Life's struggle having so far reached its term. |
