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Finding Our Calling -- The Meaning of Life
For by one Spirit we were all baptized
into one body
--
whether Jews or
Greeks, whether slaves or free
--
and
have all been made to drink into one
Spirit.
And if one member suffers, all the
members suffer with it; or if one
member is honored, all the members
rejoice with it. Now you are the body of
Christ, and members individually.
Here is how Thomas Macaulay put it:
The real security of Christianity is to
be found in its benevolent morality; in its
exquisite adaptation to the human
heart; in the facility with which its
scheme accommodates itself to the
capacity of every human intellect; in the
consolation which it bears to the house
of mourning; in the light with which it
brightens the great mystery of the
grave.
Dr.
L.
P. Jacks, inspecting a school, asked
the master where in his schedule he found time
for teaching religion. The schoolmaster replied:
We teach it all day long. We teach it
in arithmetic by accuracy, and we teach
it in history by humanity. We teach it in
geography by breadth of mind; we
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