The Crowded Life versus the Full Life.
By John Sheridan Zilia
TO-DAY our greatest danger is the crowded life. And nearly all our programs and specifics against it seem to live but a few months at best. What, then, is the opposite of the crowded life? Not the empty life, but the full life. The crowded life and the empty life are the same thing. As the water turned on at full power from the faucet will drive itself out of the glass you hold for it, and leave it empty, no matter how much water is passing through, so the life that is opened to too strong a stream of pleasure and excitements will never be full. There is room enough, but there might as well not be. And one of Christ’s influences is to lay a moderating hand upon these things so that they come in in a way which enables them to stay. It was not that Christ brought absolutely new and unheard-of things into the world so much as that He enabled men to keep and hold the things which were always theirs, but always escaping them, so He touches this crowded life of ours, and it becomes that satisfying and peaceful thing, a full life.—John Sheridan Zilia.