itself to the unvarying will; amongst the nations they have the kingdom
who do His will. The world has made progress in precisely the
proportion that this will has been realized. The promise of the
present is that this great standard, this universal law by which all
may find the right, has been made known to all through a life. One of
our own has set forth God. One has lived who has shown us how to live.
For every problem there is now an example of its solution. For every
difficulty there is something better far than a declaration of duty;
there is the great Doer of the deed. He has come near to man that men
might come near to one another. He reveals the right.

Yet we must not allow His perfection to make Him unapproachable. He is
only an example as long as His example is attainable. His divinity
does not depend on His distance from us but on the degree in which He
lifts us, inspires us towards the height He has gained.



THE HUNGER OF THE AGES

"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for
they shall be filled," is the central beatitude; in a measure it
embraces all the others, for every virtue they inculcate is included in
righteousness. But it is often rejected as impracticable because
fanciful teachers who substitute subtle definitions for simple duties
have twisted its plain words until righteousness is made something so
unreasonable as to be repulsive to a right mind. As a matter of fact,
it means no more than rightness; the hunger and thirst for
righteousness is but the earnest, supreme desire and endeavour to be
right and to do right at all times, the appetite for the right.