This ought to be conclusive enough to bring the whole world to the feet of Jesus Christ. Astonishment has sometimes been expressed that Jesus says nothing explicitly on the need and value of education that we talk so much about to-day. The reason why He did not is plain enough. He spent His time talking about the things we ignore, that alas, we don't seem to see the vital need of the things that are first and fundamental; holiness, "'without which none shall see the Lord," the clean heart, the spirit of little children, truth, plain righteousness, and morals, love, meekness, pity.
The "things that come: out of the heart are they that defile a man''; and so He came to put away sin, to bring man to God, For this He lived and died. He said, "repent." Who can deny that is the only sensible beginning of a better life. He said, "yo must be born again." Brains! Intellect! We have enough. But they run away with us like machinery out of control. One glance at the world tells us, if we have any candour, that His way is the only way for man to rise out of his miseries. "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls.""
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