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Show Inspiration to All in Really Spiritual Life Something was said In my meditations medi-tations a few weeks ago of the art of living, of which so man.v people k.ow so little, a writer In the Indian apoll3 News comments. It Is one of the greatest of the arts, and also one of the most difficult. Strong, clean, pure, beautiful and self-denying living liv-ing Is a supreme work of art and, at such, an Inspiration to all who come,' and especially those who live within the sphere of Us influence. Delight as we may, and should. In a superb literary style, it Is after all. the superb su-perb life and It may be superb, no matter how humble that exerts the greater Influence. Is this also "the gift of God"? Very obviously not Such a life Is the expression of character, char-acter, and character Is the fruit of self-culture, self-renunciation and self-discipline. Its cost of production, produc-tion, measured In pain, sacrifice, suffering suf-fering and hard work. Is enormous and yel bo great Is the result character char-acter as to be worth all it costs. Perhaps there are few of us who have not known people who lived nobly, seriously and yet Joyously, unaware un-aware of their owd goodness. We have also known people who were selfish, flighty, without dignity, devoid de-void of any sense of responsibility for the outcome of their owd life or the lives of others. The first class is made up of serious artists In the difficult dif-ficult art of living. In the second class are the botchers and there are many of them. The most hopeless folk are those who would and do divorce di-vorce beauty and morality and hold that they are natural enemies. Sucb misguided and misguiding souls know little or nothing of "the beauty of holiness " |