Those who will not go in, but
choose to wait till some more interesting or inviting door opens, will
find that opportunities grow fewer, that doors are closed instead of
opened, and life grows narrower instead of wider.
[Sidenote: All the Difference]
It is of course the motive that inspires us that makes all the
difference. To have once realised life, not as an opportunity for
self-pleasing, but as an opportunity for service, makes us willing to do
the small tasks gladly, that they may fit us for the higher tasks. It
would seem as if to us now came with ever-increasing clearness the call
to realise more truly throughout the world the great message that Christ
proclaimed of the brotherhood of men. It is this sense of brotherhood
that stirs us to make the conditions of life sweet and wholesome for
every child in our own land, that rouses us to think of the needs of
those who have never heard the Christian message of love. As we feel
what it means to know God as our Father, we learn to see all men as our
brothers, and hence to hear the call to serve them.
It is not necessary to go far to answer this call; brothers and sisters
who need our love and help are round our doors, even under our own roof
at home; this sense of brotherhood must be felt with all those with whom
we come in contact. To some may come the call to realise what it means
to recognise our brotherhood with peoples of other race and other
beliefs.
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