Excerpt from Life-Studies, Or, How to Live: Illustrated in the Biographies of Bunyan, Tersteegen, Montgomery, Perthes, and Mrs. Winslow
How to live - how to dispose worthily of that one life which is all wherewith each of us has to face Eternity - is confessedly the gravest problem which a sane man can be called to solve.
A lump of salt is dissolved in a basin of water; the salt is gone, but its savor has reached the remotest atom in the basin. Our one life is like that lump of salt: gradually it is melting away, and in a brief season it will be gone; but its savor will reach the remotest hour in the Eternity to come.
How is this one life to be lived? Where is the power which shall carry me victoriously through its struggle? It will not do to take me to the monk's pillar, or to the hermit's cell - you must show me how to go up to life's battle, and to go through it, erect and unharmed.
It was a fable of the ancients, that the god who presided over each river had his residence in a cavern at its source.
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