The Attractive Way

All human life, and mine in particular, can have a high purpose and a glorious future is with me an axiom. I have no message for any man who insists that life is purposeless and fruitless; though I would certainly agree that it is fruitless if purposeless, and purposeless if fruitless. That we want to win whatever prize our life makes possible is a corollary; and that there is a way to win it, is another. I look upon myself simply as a wayfarer quite capable of losing the way, as I have often done in our arctic snow-fields and among these impenetrable fogs. I am absolutely convinced that to follow Christ is the best way and that if that way does not attract every one to it the fault is ours, who claim to be trying to walk it. In other words, to follow Christ is the most profitable and common-sense thing for us to try to do. I am certain that if it were rightly represented, his work and way have met with such success already, and mankind has been so altered by his influence, that his way would make an attractive, natural, and effective appeal, whereas now many men are indifferent or averse to it.