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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
THE SPiniT OF CIIIIISTJIJlS
Continued from page one)
Somewhere I have seen it explained that
people turn to the life of Jesus for the
direction of their lives just as sailors
turn to the mariner's compass for their
direction because it steadily points one
way. You can adjust yourself to it be
cause vou know it does not swerve. It
may be dark about you and the storm
may rage, but you hold your little lan
tern to that needle, sure that it will be
true the sign of stability in the midst
of storm. And so today, with all the
special privileges and blessings of Ameri
can life, certainly its one peculiar evil is
its restless, unpeaceful way of living, and
the teaching of Jesus Christ is that this
activity should be controlled and di
rected. This restlessness with all its
attendant nervous disorders is better
than stagnation, but it is pathetic to see
a speed without purpose, a hurrying,
scrambling, rushing, to no end.
Into this busy life Jesus Christ comes
at this Christmas season to teach us not
to retreat and run away to a quiet place
in order to find our peace, but to give it
all a purpose and meaning. He would
have us say, I do not expect to live my
days in a sheltered place, away from
life's problems and difficulties. I expect
to throw myself into these problems and
conflicts, and try my best to find my
place, but I propose to live at peace be
cause I will simply do my best. Life is
too big a thing to be marred by little
irritations, so I am merely going to try
to work with My Father among my
brothers without chafing and without
fretting." In this spirit we start out
and our ultimate success will depend
upon two things : First, a cultivation of
patience, without which we will be un
able to keep our perspective. It is a
long, long march up the hill of life, and
we learn our lessons only so fast as we
can assimilate truth. Before we began
our service we could hear the tuning of
the instruments in the orchestra ; there
was a twisting and stretching of the
strings before they were brought to the
required pitch. So in life: Our daily
experiences of joy and sorrow, of suc
cess and failure, are the processes which
stretch or let loose our lives so that we
may make harmonious music. Some
lives need more tuning than others, and
sometimes it seems as if the string must
break when the tention of trial is so
strong.
Through all the daily drudgery of our
obscure experiences, when the journey
is hard and lonely and there are discour
agements, we must go on without be
coming impatient and fussy over the
little things, the slow things that try us
so when we are anxious for immediate
success. Little things annoy us because
it is so hard for us to take in more than
a small part of a great movement. The
quality of manhood is bigness, the ability
to see all the way and overlook the
immediate discouragements. How tri
fling little issues seem to a man when he
grasps the real meaning of movements,
and while he does not neglect the little
things, he does not vex himself with
them because he knows they are only
little. And so when the battle seems
hard, when things are trying, I go out
and lift up my face to the great sky, to
the stars, I lose myself in God's wonder
ful world of beauty and harmony, and
breathe in something of eternity, and
His peace comes and fills my life and I
go back to my task a different man.
Many people think they are impatient
because they are active; they mistake
activity for fussiness. It is not the real
workers who are impitient because the
impatient man can never become the
best workman, but when we realize the
bigness of life and the dignity of ser
vice, we lose ourselves in our task and
become calm in our judgments. But the
Christ peace means more than the culti
vation of a patient spirit. Life's rela
tionships bring with them burden and
anxiety. The peace which Christ prom
ises is not made by emptying a little
spot of all the darkness and doubt and
suffering, and settling us down into it.
Nor is this peace produced by so
changing our nature that we shall not
feel the things that cause pain and dis
turbance. To do this our hearts would
have to be robbed of the very qualities in
them which are noblest and divinest.
Only think what it would mean to you
to have taken out of your life the, possi
bility of suffering from the trials, disap
pointments, losses, wrongs and sorrows
of life. To be made so that you would
not feel these things would be to lose
out of your heart the power to love and
sympathize. The Christian man is left
just as "human" as before. To be accu
rate, he is made more "human" than
before because he finds his peace in real
izing the depth of his humanity, his
oneness with the great world of humans.
And the more we give ourselves out, the
more we justify our existence and find
peace in service.
In the Revelation of St. John, the
Divine, we have a vision of the other life,
the perfect life, the life where we realize
His peace. In the midst of all the glory,
the praise, and the worship we are told
that "they serve Him day and night in
His temple." Without these words the
vision would not be perfect. There could
be no heaven of inglorious ease and lazy
indolence. Peace can never come out of
stagnation. It can only come through
service. I have read that Thomas a
Kempis was present in a company of
friends when the conversation turned on
Heaven. Each one was asked to express
his highest conception of the happiness
of the redemed. One replied, "They shall
see His face," another "there shall be no
more pain ;" when at last the question
reached a Kempis, he answered "His
servants shall serve Him." True peace
does not come in the isolation of the
hermit's cave. It does not come even
when we have gotten rid of discord, the
disturbing influence, though this is a
necessary condition. A piano may have
had the strings drawn and stretched and
put in perfect tune, but it must be played,
before the peace-giving strains can be
heard. So in human matters a life may
have been deepened and sweetened by
the refining processes of trouble and
adversity. But if it stops there it will
only be a blank. It must fulfill the
purpose for which it was made before it
can have the true satisfaction and peace.
The most monotonous place that could
be in God's universe, whether upon earth
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