Article September 8, 1917 Issue

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with contributions from Charles Graves, W. B. Selbie, A. Maude Royden

[Rev. Charles Graves in The Christian Register]

Jesus failed to reform the faith and lives and aims of his people just because they did not want to be reformed; but even that failure is not so complete as it seems at first sight. He failed to reform the people: he failed to get them to see the things he saw and as he saw them, failed to inspire them to seek the same goal he was after reaching, failed to win their love to the virtues he prized. There may be disappointment in that, but we shall all agree that he did not fail with himself. He succeeded in making himself a living daily exponent of the moral and spiritual truths he taught. While you and I would rejoice the more had there been thousands who were inspired to the same achievement, it is surely something better than failure for one man to succeed in making of himself a living example of the righteousness possible to all men. No man fails if he succeeds only in making himself a little better than he was and a little better than the people about him. That is the one and only beginning of the reform, the redemption of the world.

[W. B. Selbie, M.A., D.D., in The Constructive Quarterly]

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