| Finding the Way |
Chapter 13 |
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The life that is under the full dominance and sway of Christ is ever unfolding new beauty, and growing into holier, sweeter, humaner, diviner character and into larger, fuller usefulness. For while the beauty of Christ becomes more and more manifest in the personal life, the influence of Christ is manifested more and more distinctly in the impression made on the world. If our citizenship is truly in heaven, we will carry the atmosphere of heaven with us wherever we go, and heavenly flowers and fruits will grow about us which but for us would not have been there. There is no more infallible test of the reality and the power of our spiritual life than in the measure of heaven we bring down into this world’s life. George Klingle puts this well in a little poem–
“Is the world better or worse where I tread?
What have I done in the years that are dead?
What have I left on the way as I passed–?
Foibles to perish or blessings to last?
Whose is the love voice I hear as I go?
Whom do I follow through weal and through woe?
Of what is my sword blade–of gold or of dross?
What is my standard–the world or the cross?
How do I choose when the heart’s sacred cry
Crosses the will of my Christ? –bid it die?
What do I do when the world’s flowers are sweet–?
Stop in my race for the flowers at my feet?
Where are my scars from–siege upon siege?
Loyally fought in the cause of my liege?
What is my watchword, my passport, to show?
The cause I contend for, the way that I go?
Are my steps onward, forever ahead?
Never turned back to some hope sin has fed?
Am I a soldier, and what is my aim?
Have I left in my footprints the light of Christ’s name?”
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