To Find His Place And Fill It

O Little Town Of Bethlehem, How Still We See Thee Lie! Above Thy Deep And Dreamless Sleep The Silent Stars Go By.

The Essence Of That By Which Jesus Overcame The World Was Not Suffering, But Obedience. Yes, Men May Puzzle Themselves And Their Hearers Over The Question Where The Power Of The Life Of Jesus And The Death Of Jesus Lay; But The Soul Of The Christian Always Knows That It Lay In The Obedience Of Christ. He Was Determined At Every Sacrifice To Do His Father's Will. Let Us Remember That; And The Power Of Christ's Sacrifice May Enter Into Us, And Some Little Share Of The Redemption Of The World May Come Through Us, As The Great Work Came Through Him.

To Believe In The God Over Us And Around Us And Not In The God Within Us - That Would Be A Powerless And Fruitless Faith.

There Are No Times In Life When Opportunity, The Chance To Be And Do, Gathers So Richly About The Soul As When It Has To Suffer. Then Everything Depends On Whether The Man Turns To The Lower Or The Higher Helps. If He Resorts To Mere Expedients And Tricks The Opportunity Is Lost. He Comes Out Harder, Poorer, Smaller For His Pain. But, If He Turns To God, The Hour Of Suffering Is The Turning Hour Of His Life.

The Essential Tendency Of Life Is Toward Happiness . . . . Optimism Is The Only True Condition For A Reasonable Man.