Irritating but Good
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. –Mark Twain
Passing It On
Small boys learn to be large men in the presence of large men who care about small boys.
Amazing but True
Professor Lowell of Harvard University was speaking many years ago to a gathering on Columbus Day. He said that there were three profound things about Christopher Columbus’ discovery of America: First, when he left Spain he didn’t know where he was going. Second, when he arrived in the New World, he didn’t know where he was. Third, when he returned to Ferdinand in his court, he didn’t know where he had been. Later wags have also added, “And he did it all on borrowed money!”
Inspired by the Best
Leonardo da Vinci had started work on a large canvas in his studio. For awhile he worked at it—choosing the subject, planning the perspective, sketching the outline, applying the colors, with his own inimitable genius. Then suddenly he ceased, the painting still unfinished, and, summoning one of his students, invited him to complete the work. The student protested that he was both unworthy and unable to complete the great painting which his master had begun. But da Vinci silenced him. “Will not what I have done inspire you to do your best?”
Our Master began two thousand years ago—by what He said, by what He did, and supremely by what He suffered. He illustrated His message and He had left us to finish the picture.