We must see ourselves as Christ's servants, sent by him to be to others what he is to us.

Then shall we be fitted to be a blessing to every life which our life touches.

Our words then shall throb with love, and find their way to the hearts of the weary and sorrowing.

Then there will be a sympathetic quality in our life which shall give a strange power of helpfulness to whatever we do.
Says a thoughtful writer, speaking of influence: "Let a man press nearer to Christ, and open his nature more widely to admit the energy of Christ, and, whether he knows it or not,--it is better, perhaps, if he does not know it,--he will certainly be growing in power for God with men, and for men with God." We get power for Christ only as we become filled with the very life of Christ.
Everywhere about us there are lives, cold, and cheerless, and dull, which by the touch of our hand, in loving warmth, in Christ's name, would be wondrously blessed and transformed.

Some one tells of going into a jeweller's store to look at certain gems.