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Humility may not inappropriately be called the starting post in
that race for Heaven of which the Apostle speaks. It is the
terminus a quo in the spiritual life. It is the first of the many
lessons set before us in the school of sanctity-----a difficult
lesson, I grant you, and one which nature seeks to shirk or to put
off indefinitely, but for the man who means to graduate for Heaven
there is no escape from it. Accordingly our Divine Master, who is
not exacting, reminds all His would-be followers, without
distinction, that they must learn this lesson, get it well by
heart, and into the heart; for Humility is the alphabet out of
which every other virtue is formed and built up. It is the soil of
the garden of the soul, "the good ground" on which the Divine Sower
goes forth to sow His seed. It is in the school of Christ, and from
the lips of Christ Himself that we must learn Humility. "Learn of
Me, because I am meek and humble of heart." By following the Master
Himself, by studying His Own Heart, we have to acquire, to
appreciate and to practice this first, this vital, this vitalizing,
energizing virtue, without which no man can hope to make any
progress at all on the Royal Road heavenward.
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