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Living is a fine art. Life is a school. We understand that we have to learn all the worthy things in education. If a man is to become an artist, he has to learn art. It does not come to him by instinct, as a kind of skill comes to certain animals. He cannot take up a brush and some paints, and, without being taught and without practice, put a noble painting on the canvas. It takes many years of hard and most patient learning to be an artist. One cannot get music as music comes to a bird. Only after the most laborious training can one sing so as to thrill hearts, or sweep the keys of an instrument so as to hold listeners spellbound with one’s music.
We all understand that before we can attain any proficiency in any pursuit, business, trade, or art, we must spend much time in learning the rules, and then in acquiring the practice necessary to give us skill. Life itself is a great deal higher art — finer, more difficult — than painting, music, architecture, navigation, or any other branch of life’s work. We need to learn how to live. This is just what being a Christian is — learning from Christ to be Christlike. It is to this that Jesus calls us when He invites us to follow Him. “Come unto me,… learn of me.” is His bidding. His word is our text-book; He himself is our teacher; life is our school. We are to learn by doing, by practice, just as men learn any other art.
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