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The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day

CHAPTER VIII
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Fix and keep a reasonably balanced daily rule.

Accept leadership where you find it--give it, if you feel the impulse and the strength.

Do not wait for some grand opportunity, and whilst you are waiting stiffen in the wrong shape.

The great opportunity may not be for us, but for the generation whose path we now prepare: and we do our best towards such preparation, if we begin in a small and humble way the incorporation of our hopes and desires as for instance Wesley and the Oxford Methodists did.

They sought merely to put their own deeply felt ideas into action quite simply and without fuss; and we know how far the resulting impulse spread.


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