man and the meek man are really above all other men, above all other
things. They dominate the world because they do not care for it.
The miser does not possess gold, gold possesses him. But the meek
possess it. "The meek," said Christ, "inherit the earth." They
do not buy it; they do not conquer it; but they inherit it.

There are people who go about the world looking out for slights,
and they are necessarily miserable, for they find them at every
turn--especially the imaginary ones. One has the same pity for
such men as for the very poor. They are the morally illiterate.
They have had no real education, for they have never learned

How to live.

Few men know how to live. We grow up at random carrying into mature
life the merely animal methods and motives which we had as little
children. And it does not occur to us that all this must be changed
that much of it must be reversed; that life is the finest of the
Fine Arts; that it has to be learned with life-long patience, and
that the years of our pilgrimage are all too short to master it
triumphantly.

Yet this is what Christianity is for--to teach men

The art of life.

And its whole curriculum lies in one word--"Learn of me." Unlike
most education, this is almost purely personal; it is not to be had
from books, or lectures or creeds or doctrines. It is a study from
the life. Christ never said much in mere words about the Christian