CHAPTER VI
AN OPENING FOR THE NEXT PIERPONT MORGAN
Christ said once, "He that is greatest among you let him be your servant."
Most people have taken it as if He had said:
"He that is greatest among you let him be your valet.
"He that is greatest among you let him be your butler.
"He that is greatest among you let him be your hostler, porter, footman."
They cling to a mediæval Morality-Play, Servant-in-the-House idea, a kind of head-waiter idea of what Christ meant.
This seems to some of us a literal-minded, Western way of interpreting an Oriental metaphor. We do not believe that Christ meant servanthood. It seems to us that He meant something deeper, that He meant service; that He might have said as well:
"He that is greatest among you let him be your Duke of Wellington.