LEARNING TO LIKE THE RIGHT.
By Sunday-School Times
WE can learn to like the right, tho we ought to do right whether we like it or not. And God will help us in our desire to learn to like that which we ought to like. Let no one doubt that, nor be discouraged because he finds himself sadly out of tune with, and not attracted by, the very things that he knows ought to attract him. One who has been called one of the greatest preachers in England, and who is noted for rare spiritual power, has cried out in prayer: "My Father, I would have a stronger appetite for the right. I turn to it reluctantly when I ought to hunger for it. I turn to it as a sick man to his food, when I ought to long for it as thirsty men seek their water. Breathe upon me, that my appetite may be restored." And that is the prayer that righteous men will have to make so long as the devil is permitted to make it his business to11seek to destroy right appetites and every right desire. The most effective way to insure the answer to the prayer is to rise from our knees and do the right as hard as tho we really liked to do it. Doing breeds liking. Right-liking is a sure result of right-doing.