Of what value or power is my feeble little life among the teeming millions that go to make up the nation?
Put away the thought, for it is a direct temptation of the Devil.
It was just when, in the very depths of his human despair, Elijah cried out, "I, I only am left," that God revealed to him the seven thousand men who had not bowed the knee to Baal.
It was because Athanasius was content to stand contra mundum, against the world, that the Catholic faith was preserved to the Church.
Let us very seriously examine ourselves as to the use we are making of our life with regard to other people.
We have considered that life, in various details, in respect to ourselves, and only incidentally as it affects others, but now let us put away all thought of self.
Take the one absolute standard of life as set in the text, "I came down from Heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me."
The result was a life entirely devoted, from the first moment to the last, to one stupendous cause: the lifting up of humanity to the very throne of God.
You and I cannot reach even a fraction of the way towards that perfect standard; but it is our pattern, our plummet, our measuring-line.
Very practically, then, we must ask ourselves such questions as these: