He had no talents wherewith to found a great
organisation or create public opinion. He had determined, after much
thought, to do what he was now doing. It was very little, but it was
all he could undertake. He proposed to keep this room open as a
place to which those who wished might resort at different times, and
find some quietude, instruction, and what fortifying thoughts he
could collect to enable men to endure their almost unendurable
sufferings. He did not intend to teach theology. Anything which
would be serviceable he would set forth, but in the main he intended
to rely on holding up the examples of those who were greater than
ourselves and were our redeemers. He meant to teach Christ in the
proper sense of the word. Christ now is admired probably more than
He had ever been. Everybody agrees to admire Him, but where are the
people who really do what He did? There is no religion now-a-days.
Religion is a mere literature. Cultivated persons sit in their
studies and write overflowingly about Jesus, or meet at parties and
talk about Him; but He is not of much use to me unless I say to
myself, HOW IS IT WITH THEE? unless I myself become what He was.
This was the meaning of Jesus to the Apostle Paul.
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