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May God Hasten the Consummation
Jesus Christ has trod the world. The trace of the divine footsteps will never be obliterated. And the divine footsteps were the footsteps of a man.
The example of Christ is such as men can follow. On! until mankind wears his image. On! toward yon summit on which stands, not an angel, not a disembodied spirit, not an abstract of ideal and unattainable virtues, but the man Christ Jesus.
It is something to have a clear margin left for effort, a clear possibility marked for improvement. When humanity has become like His humanity, we may pause; we shall then be aware that the clouds above our heads have beamed into the unutterable beauty of Heaven, that the lilies of the field have glowed with immortal amaranths.
May God Almighty hasten the consummation, and may we, with passionate, steady, burning, unquenchable ardor, strive to know and imitate Christ. — Peter Bayne.
Friday, June 8, 2007
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