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Show The ChrUtlan Worker's Ideal. The greatest discovery a young per-on per-on can make is the presence of a Higher than himself, to whom he belongs, be-longs, and into Whom he may grow. It is a self-awakening, a momentous crisis in reality, an epoch. The Christ that is to be is fuller, deeper, richer than the Christ that Is. The forecast is greater than the retrospect. It Is of prime importance that the young worker's vision should be larger than his experience; that his desire and expectation ex-pectation should outrun his attainments, attain-ments, and that his hope a-nd faith should never cease. Self-content li emptiness. A dead level destroys rev-rence rev-rence and stunts growth. The Christian worker's true ideal Is Jesus Christ. He sums up in himself all the food that ever will be. All wise movements have their Bources and goal in Him. The mightiest expansions expan-sions of the human mlod are met in Him. The deepest yearning of the human hu-man spirit centers in Him. All the strange, mystical, restless passion of the human soul after being good and doing good finds rest in Him. His mission mis-sion la our mission, and His methods are ours, too. We see light In His light. If, therefore, we desire to know His name, to do His work, to enter into in-to the glory of His revelation, we must be friends with Him. Lift up your eyes on high. "Speak to Him thou, for He heart, and spirit with spirit can meet; Closer Is He than breathing and nearer than hands and feet." |