And so, believe me, we should be exalted. It would pay us, if
payment is what we want. For so we should be in a more right, more
true, more healthy, more wise, more powerful state of mind; more like
Jesus Christ, and therefore more likely to be sent to do Christ's
work, and share Christ's reward. For this is the great law of the
kingdom of God in which we live, that man is nothing, and God is
everything; and that we are strong and wise, and something, only when
we find out that we are weak and foolish, and nothing, and go to our
Father in heaven for strength, and wisdom, and spiritual eternal
life. And then we find out how true it is that he who humbles
himself, as he deserves, will be raised up; how he who loses his life
will save it; how blessed are the poor in spirit, those who feel that
they have nothing but what God chooses to give them; for theirs is
the kingdom of heaven! How blessed are those who hunger and thirst
after righteousness; who feel that they are not doing right, and yet
cannot rest till they do right; for they shall be filled! How
blessed are the meek, who do not set up themselves, or try to fight
their own battles, and compete with their neighbours in the great
scramble and struggle of this world; for they--just the last persons
whom the world would expect to do it--shall inherit the earth!
Choose, my friends, choose! The world says: "Push upwards, praise
yourself, help yourself, put your best side outwards.
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