Fares Please Author:Halford Edward Luccock Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: metrical living pyramid. But it is a much finer thing to see in the lives of people built into the achievement of some common good. It is a truth that we fully l... more »earn only by experience, that our net contribution to the world's good depends rather less on our individual endowment of genius or talent than on our ability to get along with folks, to hold our individual preferments in subordination to the larger purpose, and to endure even the harsh asperities of others for the sake of some shining goal to be reached only through cooperation. It is easy enough to go along forcing others to adjust themselves to our moods, absolving ourselves by the reflection, "I am a plain, blunt man." When told that he must sit next a certain bishop at a dinner party, Henry Luttrell said, "I do not mix well with the Dean, but I should positively effervesce with the bishop." It is much easier to "effervesce" with uncongenial persons than to adjust ourselves to them in cooperative service. Lincoln never better illustrated that fine art of subordination of self by which he towered to greatness than in his saying, "I would hold McOlellan's horse if it would bring us a victory." For the sake of national unity, VonMoltke, a naturally impulsive man, "could hold his tongue in seven languages." It was the fine art of Jesus, who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame. Verily, art is long. Our hope would be small without the resources of the Head Master. We are not dependent on the teaching of formal precept, but ours is that same divine curriculum of companionship through which the impulsive Peter was graduated to a magnificent stability and the narrow and bigoted Paul became a living epistle of love. chapter{Section 4Ill ARE YOU A PERSON OF DISTINCTION? Abe you ...« less