The spiritual life

(Martin Jones) #1

148 The Spiritual Life.


That isthe first great step,andin orderto


beable to take itthere is one secret that we


must remember: we must do everything as


thoughtheGreat Powerweredoingit through


us. That is the secret of what is called


"inactioninthemidstofaction." If amanof


the world would become trulyspiritual,thatis


the thought that he must put behind all his


work. The counsel, the judge, the solicitor,


whatmustbethe motivemeach man'sheartif


m these ordinary affairsof life he would learn


thesecretof thespirit? Hemustregardhim-


self simplyasan incarnationof DivineJustice.

"What,"aman says, "in themidstof lawas


weknow it?" Yes, even there, imperfect as


it is, full of wrongs as it may be, it is the


Justice of God strivingto make itself supreme


on earth; and the man who would be a


spiritualmaninthe profession of the lawmust


thinkof himselfasanincarnationof the Divine

Justice, and always have at the heart of his


thought: "Iamthe Divinehandof Justicein


theworld,andasthat Ifollowlaw." Andso


in all else. Take Commerce. Commerce is


one of theways by which theworld lives—


a

partofthe Divineactivity. ThemanmCom-


merce must think of himself as part of that


circulating stream of life by which nations are

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