He gives his life for
his friend. Do you jeer at him? Do you say he is a fool for his pains?
No, it is his honour, his glory."
"God is love. Why are you afraid to let Him in? Hate knocks also at
your door and to him you open wide. Why are you afraid of love? All
things are created by love. Hate can but destroy. Why choose you death
instead of life? God pleads to you. He is waiting for your help."
And one answered him.
"We are but poor men," he said. "What can we do? Of what use are such
as we?"
The young man looked at him and smiled.
"You can ask that," he said: "you, a soldier? Does the soldier say: 'I
am of no use. I am but a poor man of no account. Who has need of such
as I?' God has need of all. There is none that shall not help to win
the victory. It is with his life the soldier serves. Who were they
whose teaching moved the world more than it has ever yet been moved by
the teaching of the wisest? They were men of little knowledge, of but
little learning, poor and lowly. It was with their lives they taught."
"Cast out self, and God shall enter in, and you shall be One with God.
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