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And so the Leader of them all was served in His day; and that purest, perfectest, noblest, loftiest, most utterly self-oblivious, and God-and-man-devoted life that ever was lived upon earth, was disposed of in this extremely simple method, so comforting to the complacency of the critics either 'He is beside Himself, or 'He hath a devil.
Bahá’u’lláh entered it one day, and, looking about Him, remarked: ‘Its emptiness pleases Me. The one shirt He possessed would be washed, dried and worn again.” “Many a night,” continues Nabíl, depicting the lives of those self-oblivious companions, “no less than ten persons subsisted on no more than a pennyworth of dates.
This is the originality and uniqueness of Christ as a moral Teacher, that He says, not 'Do this, that, and the other thing, but 'Copy Me. 'Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. His commandments are Himself; and the sum of them all is this a character perfectly self-oblivious, and wholly penetrated and saturated with joyful, filial submission to the Father, and uttermost and entire giving Himself away to His brethren.
Muller did he was, to the last, self-oblivious. From the time when, in October, 1830, he had given up all stated salary, as pastor and minister of the gospel, he had never received any salary, stipend nor fixed income, of any sort, whether as a pastor or as a director of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution.
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us; or else a self-oblivious lifting up of Gladness, a Gloria in excelsis that such Good exists; both the yearning and the exaltation gathering their utmost force from the sense of communion in a form which has expressed them both, for long generations of struggling fellow-men.
But, at any rate, it is no exaggeration nor presumption to say that a professed faith which is not making us daily better, gentler, simpler, purer, more truthful, more tender, more brave, more self-oblivious, more loving, more strong more like Christ is wofully deficient either in reality or in power is, if genuine, ready to perish if lit at all, smouldering to extinction.
This is what we see in that life and in that death: First of all the activity of love 'Let us not love in words, but in deed and in truth'; then we see the self-forgetfulness of love 'Even Christ pleased not Himself'; then we see the self-sacrifice of love 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. And in these three points, on which I would fain enlarge if I might, active love, self-oblivious love, self-sacrificing love, you have the pattern set for us all.
And yet it is not complete or adequate, because, to parallel Christ's work with the work of any of the rest of us to our brethren, however beautiful, disinterested, self-oblivious, and self-consuming it may be, seems to me I say it with deference, though I must here remember considerations of brevity and be merely assertive entirely to ignore the unique special characteristic of the work of Jesus Christ viz., that it was the atonement for the sins of the world.
The touch of the traitor's lips has barely left His cheek, but not one faint passing flush of anger tinges it. He is perfectly self-oblivious absorbed in other thoughts, and among them in pity for the guilty wretch before Him. His words have no agitation in them, no instinctive recoil from the pollution of such a salutation.
She pressed his hand rapturously between her two, dropped it playfully, and saw that there had come between them a nearness and a farness different from any that had ever been. John felt the same thing, but did not guess that this was why her smile was grateful and yet had a pang in it. There was a self-oblivious kindness in his murmur as he refused a seat. "No, I mustn't keep you a moment.
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