Excerpt from An Imperial Passion

As soon as we look into the matter with earnest care, we discover that our great need is the need of a passion, the need of an imperial passion which shall carry us through tragedy and pain and waiting to the day of victory, and in that later day carry us through the demanding work of rebuilding the world.

Naturally we look to the great Master of life for the decisive word in respect of this matter. Naturally we go to the one whose victorious life and luminous words have been a transforming power in twenty centuries for guidance here. And His word is characteristic in its brief and telling and epigrammatic power Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. The source of power in human life, is its deepest desire. Not what we have but what we want defines us. And the men and women who want righteousness more than anything else, who have given themselves to a deep hunger for personal righteousness, and national righteousness, and right eousness for the world, will have an imperial passion which sweeps everything else aside as incidental, and fills them with strength as the living Christ touches their lives. The men and women whose passionate desire for righteousness has drawn them to the living Christ will not fail in this critical hour.

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