believe that it is. The antithesis of much that we have thought to be the basis of happiness, it is nevertheless a way that proves itself as we put it into practice.
We may never know it at all from reading or hearing about Jesus, because what seem to us the tragedies of His life loom large in the outward picture. That unfortunately is all that most of us see. However, if we could view the inner life of Jesus, I think none of us would dare to call Him sad or unhappy. He was doing the will of the Father within Him. He was not forced to say that He did not find in His life the joy of which He often spoke. Perhaps happiness would not lie for any of us in circumstances like those of Jesus' life; but surely happiness for us does lie in being as true to our own highest self as He was true to the Christ within Him, and in loving as He loved, as wisely and unselfishly and completely.
Recapitulation
Love must be gentle but strong, kind but wise, deep but unselfish. It must grow from the infancy of Cupid to the maturity of Christ.
We must love ourselves not less but more;
