HOW HIGH IS YOUR AIM?
No man has a right to be called “great” if his aims are small. And the question is, not as modern idolatry of intellect, or, still worse, modern idolatry of success often makes it out to be: Has he great capabilities? Or has he won any prizes? But has he greatly used himself and his life? If your aims are small, you will never be great; and if your highest aims are but to get a good slice of this world’s pudding – no matter what powers God may give you to use – you are essentially a small man. I remember a contemptuous illustration of St. Bernard, who likens a man who lives for these perishable delights which John spurned, to a spider spinning a web out of his own substance, and catching in it nothing but a wretched prey of poor little flies. Such a one has surely no right to be called a great man.…
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