If I Had Not Come: Things Taught by Christ Alone (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from If I Had Not Come: Things Taught by Christ Alone

There seems to me to be somehow a missing of the divine hint when the recipient of a fine courtesy allows his personal gratification in being thus favored to blind him to the oppor tunity which every such pleasing recognition brings with it. I do not mean the opportunity to punctiliously repay in kind. That would be to taint graciousness with the grossness of trade and so to venalize gentility. What I mean is that in its essence every high-born act of courtesy holds a spiritual seed which should find a better soil than personal vanity and have a better outcome than individual self complacency. It is a shame to a man not to discern in every expression of regard for him self a divine insistence that he shall somehow turn it to the general good. That is a sickly soul that knows only to steep its vanity in the shining dews distilled by love. My soul, heed thou thine own admonition.

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