Albert Schweitzer, working in the African jungle, surrounded by darkness, disease, and death, wrote: “I work with unbroken concentration, but without hurry. However much I am at the mercy of the world, I never let myself get lost by brooding over its misery. I hold firmly to the thought that each of us can do a little to bring some portion of that misery to an end.”
That is the spirit of a Christian; Jesus spread a new atmosphere by His very presence. When He spoke, people gained new courage and hope and strength. He did not allow Himself to sink to the level of His environment, but rather He lifted it up to His level. It is ever the task of Christians to be thermostats—controlling the temperature of their lives; not thermometers, registering it—but to change and set the atmosphere of their environment, not merely to record it.
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