TRUTH— Qualification for Learning-Charles Spurgeon

Ruskin, in reference to painters, declares, that “a person false at heart may, when it suits his purposes, seize a stray truth here or there ; but the relations of truth, its perfectness, that which makes it wholesome truth, he can never perceive. As wholeness and wholes o me tie as go together, so also sight with sincerity ; it is only the constant desire of, and sub- intensiveness to truth, which can measure its strange angles, and mark its infinite aspects, and fit them and knit them into the strength of sacred invention.” the like remark, with keener edge, applies to those who would be disciples in christ’s school, or aspire to be teachers in his church. No man is likely to accomplish much who moodily indulges a responding view of his own capacities. By god’s help the weakest of us may be strong, way to become so, to resolve never to give up a good work till we have tried our best to achieve it. To think nothing impossible is the privilege of faith. We deprecate the indolent cowardice of the man who always felt assured that every new enterprise would be too much for him, and therefore declined it ; but we admire the pluck of the plowman who was asked on his cross- examination if he could read greek, and replied he did not know, because he had never tried. Those suffolk horses which will pull at a post till they drop are worth a thousand times as much as jibbing animals that run back as soon as ever the collar begins to press them.