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"Fair friend," saith Messire Gawain, "Whence come you?" "Sir," saith he, "I come from yonder forest down below." "Whose man are you?" saith Messire Gawain. "I belong to the worshipful man that owneth the forest." "You seem not over joyful," saith Messire Gawain. "Sir, I have right to be otherwise," saith the squire, "For he that loseth his good lord ought not to be joyful."
"You think it is always our vanity?" "Analyze it as your revered Thomas does and you shall reach the same conclusion. Let a girl reject you and " Meredith broke off, cursing himself inwardly, and, rising, cried gaily: "What profiteth it a man if he gain the whole wisdom in regard to women and loseth not his own heart?
Better for us to ask ourselves the question to-day about all the godless parts of our lives, 'To what purpose is this waste? than to have to ask it yonder! Everything but giving our whole selves to Jesus Christ is waste. It is not waste to lay ourselves and our possessions at His feet. 'He that loveth his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life for My sake, the same shall find it.
Right here we run up against the danger signal if our business success wins us away from the hearthstone. Love of home is a quality of the workers of the earth. "What doth it profit a man to win the whole world if he loseth his own soul?" To sum up the case once we have made up our minds to win and how we are going to do it, the next step is to act. Health is synonymous with action.
But he that saveth his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life in loving service finds it returning to him great and glorious. This man's preaching did not make him great. His college did not make him great. His books did not make him great. These are the by-products. His life of service for others makes him great makes his preaching, his college and his books great.
"Many shall say to me in that day, Lord, Lord," &c., "then will I profess unto them, I never knew you, depart from me all ye that work iniquity." Take the following expressions out of a number of similar ones in St. Matthew: "Blessed are ye when men shall persecute you for My sake." "He that loseth his life for My sake shall find it." "No man knoweth the Son, but the Father."
If we meet a man better than ourselves, more wise than ourselves, more learned, more experienced, more delicate-minded, more high-minded, let us take pains to win his esteem, to gain his confidence, and to win him as a friend, for the sake of his worth. Then in our friendship, as in everything else in the world, we shall find the great law come true, that he that loseth his life shall save it.
He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. 38. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after Me, is not worthy of Me. 39. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for My sake shall find it 40.
He again that pursueth wealth too much without pursuing virtue and enjoyments, deserveth to be censured and slain by all men. He also that ever pursueth enjoyments without pursuing virtue and wealth, loseth his friends and virtue and wealth also.
He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life for my sake and the gospel's, shall find it. What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
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