Aspiration without God

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 22, 1910

Aspiration without God.

It is said that "Longfellow was ashamed that he wrote 'Excelsior.' He tells of a young man toiling up and up, ever with the desire to gain greater heights. And the higher you get the colder it is. At least he got higher, and met—death." And this is about the result of men's aspirations without God. The heights of fame and wealth and power and knowledge are cold and lifeless without divine love. Divine love walks in the lowliest places of earth, yet it has Christ the Lord for company. Then are the lowly places lifted up and the humble exalted.