The spiritual life

(Martin Jones) #1

14 The Spiritual Life.


Let that man in thisor anyother lifeawaken


to the valuelessness of the gold that he has


heaped together; let him see the beauty of


humanservice; let himcatch aghmpseof the


splendourof the Divineorder; let himrealise


thatallthatlifeisworthistogive itaspartof


the great life bywhich the worlds are main-


tained,andthepowerhehasgainedoverbody,


over mind, over will, will make that man a


giantinthespiritualworld. Hedoesnotneed


tochange those qualities,but toget ridof the


selfishness, to get rid of the indifference to


humanpain,togetridof the recklessnesswith


which he crushed his brother,inorderthathe


might climb into wealth on the starvation of


myriads. He must changehisideal fromsel-


fishness to service; from strength used for


crushing to strengthused foruplifting; and in


thegiant of the money marketyou will have


the spiritual man; his life is concentrated to


humanity, and he owns only to serve and to


help. (Applause.) Differenceof object, dif-
ferenceofmotive,notdifferenceoftheouterlife,


onthatdoesitdependwhetheramanisof the


worldworldlyorof thespiritspiritual.


I used just nowtheword duty,forthat is


thefirststep. Anyoneof you,whatevermay


be yourwork in the world, it matters not, if

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