Bethlehem To Olivet - Life of Jesus - Miller, J. R. (James Russell), 1840-1912

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THE LIFE
OF
JESUS CHRIST
ILLUSTRATED
MODERN
PAINTERS
BY
BETHLEHEM TO OLIVET
?getf)lei)em to libet
BY
J.
R.
MILLER, D.D.
Life,"
etc.
Author of " Making the Most of

" Silent Times,"
THE
LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST
ILLUSTRATED BY MODERN PAINTERS
NEW YORK
THOMAS
Y.
CROWELL &
CO.
PUBLISHERS
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I
THE GOSPEL OF THE INFANCY
...
PAOB
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CHAPTER
II
THE COMING OF JESUS CHRIST
...
...
...
CHAPTER
III
THE MOTHER AND THE CHILD
13
CHAPTER
IV
THE WATCHFULNESS OF GOD
19
CHAPTER V
THE HOLY CHILDHOOD
....
VI
.
25
CHAPTER
V
THE YOUTH OF JESUS CHRIST
3X
"
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
VII
THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS

CHAPTER
VIII
...
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PAGE
37
"NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPETH
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CHAPTER
"LORD, SAVE ME"
IX
49
CHAPTER X
THE CHILDREN'S FRIEND
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CHAPTER
THE TEACHER BY THE SEA
XI
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6i
CHAPTER
CHRIST AT THE DOOR
XII
67
THE LORD
IS
CHAPTER XIII MY SHEPHERD

CHAPTER XIV
...
.
73
THE COMPASSION OF CHRIST

vi
-79
CONTENTS
CHAPTER XV
UNREQUITED LOVE
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I'AGE
.
85
CHAPTER XVI
THE COMING OF THE KING
Qi
CHAPTER
XVII
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REMEMBER JESUS CHRIST

CHAPTER
THE LESSON OF SERVICE
97
XVIII
.
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CHAPTER XIX
THE REFUGE
IN
SORROW
09
CHAPTER XX 'COULD YE NOT WATCH ONE HOUR?"
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CHAPTER XXI
WHY
DID PETER FAIL?
.."!
"WHAT SHALL
CHAPTER XXII DO WITH JESUS?"

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CONTENTS
CHAPTER
"BEHOLD THE MAN"
XXIII
PAGE
133
CHAPTER XXIV
THE GREAT MYSTERY OF LOVE
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.139
CHAPTER XXV
LAST AT THE CROSS, FIRST AT THE GRAVE
145
CHAPTER XXVI
THE WOMEN FRIENDS OF JESUS
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.151
CHAPTER XXVII
THE WALK TO EMMAUS
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.
157
CHAPTER XXVIII
THE PATHOS OF DIVINE LOVE
.163
CHAPTER XXIX
THE KING AND
HIS
KINGDOM
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169
CHAPTER XXX
THE PARTING BLESSING
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ILLUSTRATIONS
THE ARRIVAL OF THE SHEPHERDS.
By Henry
LerolU.
ConUmporary French
School.
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.

By Sir Edward Bume-Jones,
Bart., British School.
MARY AND THE CHILD JESUS.

By
P. A. J. Dagnan-Bouveret,
Contemporary French School.
THE REPOSE
By Luc
IN EGYPT.
Contemporary French School
Olivier Alerson,
JESUS CHRIST AS A CHILD.

By Jef Leempocls, Contemporary Flemish
School.
THE CHILD CHRIST.

By
P. A. J. Dagnan-Bouveret,
Contemporary French
Scliool.
THE SHADOW OF DEATH.

By W. Holman
Hunt, O.U., Contemporary British School.
ix
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE RAISING OF
By
G. P.
JAIRUS'S DAUGHTER.
Jacomb-Hood, Contemporary British School.
CHRIST AND PETER GALILEE.

By
ON THE LAKE OF
Frederick J. Shields, Contemporary British Scliool.
"
SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO

ME."
By
Mile. OttiUe Roederstein,
Contemporary Swiss
School.
CHRIST PREACHING BY THE LAKE.

By
F.
von Uhde, Contemporary German Scltool.
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.

By W. Holman Hunt,
O.M., Contemporary British School.
THE GOOD SHEPHERD.

By Frederick J.
Shields,
Contemporary British ScJwol.
"COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY-LADEN."

By Anton
Dietrich,
Contemporary German School.
CHRIST WEEPS OVER THE

By Paul
CITY.
Hippolyte Flandrin, Contemporary French School.
CHRIST ENTERS JERUSALEM.

By yean Leon Gerome, Contemporary French
School.
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE LAST SUPPER,
By'iEduard ivn Gebhardt, Contemporary German School.
CHRIST WASHING PETER'S FEET.

By Ford Uadox Brown,
British School.
CHRIST AT GETHSEMANE.
By
J. M. Heinrich
Hofmann, Contemporary German
School.
GETHSEMANE.
Byf. H.
F. Bacon, A.R.A.,
Contemporary British School.
PETER'S DENIAL.
By Gra/ Harrach, Contemporary German
School.
CHRIST BEFORE PILATE.

By Michael de Munkacsy, Hungarian
School.
ECCE HOMO.
By Antonio
Ciseri, Italian Scltool.
THE CRUCIFIXION.
By Lion Bonnat, Contemporary French
School.
MARY MAGDALENE AT THE FOOT OF THE

By Juki
Joseph Lefebnnc, Contemporary Fraich School.
CROSS.
xi
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE HOLY WOMEN AT THE TOMB.
By William Adolphe Bouguereait, French School.
THE SUPPER AT EMMAUS.

By Eugene Girardet, Contemporary French
School.
THE LOST SHEEP.

By
A. U. Soord, Contemporary British Sclwol.
CHRIST'S MISSION TO
By Joseph
THE APOSTLES.
Auhert, Contemporary Frettch School.
THE ASCENSION.
By Ernst von Liphart, Contemporary German
School.
xn
THE GOSPEL OF THE INFANCY

TXTE
look for the glory of the
life
of Jesus in His manhood's years.
Then He wrought
spoke
have
great miracles, re-
vealing His divine power.
Then He
with
their
His
wonderful
the
words which
touched
world
influence of blessing.
Then He went
life,
about doing good, showing the love

of
God
in
all
His
common
and
re-
on His
cross.
We
do not turn
to the
infancy of Jesus for supernatural

vealings.
The
apocryphal
Gospels
have their stories of infant prodigies,

but
we do
not accept these, and are
THE GOSPEL OF
careful to say that Jesus
wrought no
miracles and
deity until
showed no revealings of He had been anointed with

life
the
Holy
Spirit.
Yet in no portion of the

Jesus
Christ
is
of
there
really
greater
glory
than
in
His
birth.
Nothing
world than
showed more love
for the
His condescending to be born.
We
act of
should say that the heart of the gospel
was the cross,

the
but
the
first
redemption was the Incarnation, when
Son of God emptied Himself of His divine attributes and entered human life in all the feebleness and
helplessness of infancy.
In
its
reveal-
ing of love and grace, the cradle of

Jesus
It
is is
as
marvellous as His cross.

to
impossible
sum
up
the
blessings of this holy Infancy.
Child-
K U X
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THE INFANCY
hood
shines
everywhere
is
exalted
by
it.
Something of the
light of the
manger
now about
every child's cradle.
Wonderful has been the ministry even

of the pictures
of the
infant
Jesus.
Where the story of the birth of Christ is known the world becomes a safer
place
gentler
for
all
children
truer,
hearts
are
is
and
and
the
air
sweeter where the Christmas message

is
told.
Since
Christ,
the
Son
of
all
God, was born the Son of Mary,

infancy
*'
is
sacred.
come
Trailing clouds of glory do we
From God who

Heaven
lies
is
our home
in
about us
our infancy."
We
hood.
has
should learn to reverence childa
The home to which come is a sacred place.

5
baby
It
is
THE GOSPEL
nigh
fail
to to
heaven.
The
the
parents
who
one
understand
to
blessing that
has
come
them
in their little
are missing a revelation as glorious as
the burning bush, before which Moses
was bidden to take
oflt
his shoes.
THE COMING OF
JESUS
'\1[7'E
CHRIST
the
wonder
at
strange
in
this
recepworld.
tion
Jesus
had
We
be
He
would have said that He would welcomed enthusiastically. But came almost unobserved. Some
lowly shepherds, learning through an

angelic vision of what had happened,
came
But
in
to see
the wonderful Child.
that
was
stir
all.
The
not."
great
event
''
made no
in
Jerusalem.
His
own
received
Him
But one day Jerusalem was startled
by the coming of a delegation of wise
men from
the far East.

7
They spoke
THE COMING OF
of a King
who had been born
in the
country of the Jews.
Neither Herod
nor the
rulers
had any thought of
such an event in their midst.
The
true
world
royalty.
does
not
recognise
its
Tradition says they were kings
who
came.
ful
They certainly were thoughtmen reverent, devout, sincere
seekers after that

true.
which
is
good and
character
;
They were men of

also
rich,
they were
for
they came
frankin-
laden
with
treasures
gold,
cense and
myrrh.
down
to this
Yet they bowed Child King, whom they
found in lowly circumstances, giving
Him
highest honour, and laying their
gifts at
His
feet.
Even
this incident,
however, made no lasting impression.
The
people were
8
indifferent.
None
w = a 5 w (^
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6a
JESUS CHRIST
of them followed the Magi to worship
their
King.
The
only result was the
tragedy of Bethlehem
the
little
the slaying of
children in Herod's jealous
plot to destroy the
So
it
is
always.
new-born King. Jesus divides men.

life
Many
turn from the glory of His
with indifference.
They
the
ignore
Him.
His
They laugh
friends
see
at
adoring
of
and
their faith in
Him.
They
no beauty in Him. Yet always there are those who see They are in Jesus the King of glory. drawn to Him in love that becomes
a
very
fire
in
their
hearts.
They
no cost or sacrifice in followThey bring ing and serving Him. Him their best treasures not money, but the gold, frankincense and myrrh
stop at
of their hearts.
1
THE COMING
Christ
are
never
to
disappoints
any
who
and and
out.
drawn
Him
in adoration
devotion.
blessing
in
Visions
of
beauty
fade
Every
Him hope in Him
never
is
realised.
None
who
ever turn to
Him
fail
in
need and
satisfied.
heart-hunger will
to be
Every promise that
He
gives
becomes
accept
a glorious reality to those

it.
who
12
THE MOTHER AND THE CHILD

'T^HE
itself
Mother and the Holy Child has wrought

picture of the Virgin
inextricably
into
the
life
of
Christendom. wherever
softening
aspirations.
it is
It is a
blessed evangel
seen, sweetening homes,

inspiring
hearts,
heavenly
But in the light of the story of Jesus Christ every mother and child have a deep interest to all trueTo the reverent mind, hearted men.
motherhood is always sacred. It stands When a little child is near to God.

laid in the
arms of a mother, a holy

13
THE MOTHER AND

trust
life
is
committed
its first
to her, an
immortal
is
in
beginnings, which she
to train and
Croons
**
make ready for its mission. reverent young mother,

fear thee
;
My child, How shall

whole
I I
?
thou'rt a spirit, soul

?
walk before thee
keep
my
garments
O
To
Lord, give strength, give wisdom, for the task

train this child for
Thee."
It
was a holy
to
trust
indeed that was
committed
chosen to
Redeemer.
in her
Mary, when she was be the mother of the It behoved her to be holy
diligent in her
less
own person and

is
care of her child.

serious
But scarcely
the
responsibility of every
mother.
She does not
know
for
what
nor
lofty mission her child has
been born.
Her hand must never

must she
fail
slacken,
God
14
in
her duty as a
MARY AND THE CHILD JESUS

By
Copyrifihl Holders:
P. A. y. Dafinan-Bouveret,
Contemporary Freiuh School

Brauu, CUmenI
fr
Co
Paris, tqo2
THE CHILD
mother,
Great
her
else
she
may wreck
a divine
plan for a
is
life.
a mother's joy as she sees
child
strength
grow up
the
in
beauty
and
answer to her prayers,

Ofttimes,
the fruit of her faithfrilness.

too, sorrow falls to the lot of
motherher
hood.
Child to
When Mary
God
in the
presented
Temple, she was
granted a vision of His future greatness, but she
was shown a vision also
of a day
cross,
when she should stand by His her own heart pierced by the
His hands and
lifted
feet.
nails that pierced
The
children
veil
is
not
to reveal to
other mothers what experiences their
may
meet, yet there are few
mothers whose love
does
not bring
them
always
grief as well as joy.
There
c
is
pain
in
the
17
responsibility
of
THE MOTHER, THE CHILD

motherhood,
in
is
love's
solicitudes.
Many
times
that
times, too,
there sorrow over
the failure of bright dreams.

it
is
Some-
suffering
in
her children
makes the mother stand pale and
with anguished heart beside them.

it
Or
the
may be
their early death that
is
cause of her grief.

misses pain.
Motherhood never But pain enriches. Only

suffers
the mother
who
learns
love's
holiest secrets.
i8

TÔES God
little
watch over the
lives
of
?
children
on
the
earth
Does He keep guard over imperilled

infancy
the
?
The
story of the flight

to
of
Holy Family
was a
flight
question in
It
Egypt answers the the case of one infant life.

divinely
ordered and
directed.
The Child
Jesus
was
in
danger.
There was no human way of escape. He who had come to

to
earth
be
the
Redeemer of men
slain
was about to be
in
His cradle.
for
Then
Heaven
interfered
His
deliverance.
An
angel
19
came
to Joseph,

bidding him hasten away because the
Ufe of the Child was in peril.
Instantly
the
command was
obeyed, and when
Herod's soldiers came, the Child they
were sent to destroy was

their reach.
safe
beyond
The Child
Jesus was unique in the
world's history, but the same provi-
dence that watched over His infancy

watches
child.
over
the
infancy
evil
of
every
To
it
our eyes
pleases.
seems to strike
where
to
Weakness appears
distinction
have no defence against strength.
Pestilence
it
knows no
when
comes into a community, but enters the homes of the evil and the good with like impunity. But ever Heaven is watching. There are lives no pestilence can touch. There is a wall of protection about them which noth20

ing can pass.
mission for
The God in
child
who
has a
the future cannot
be stricken in his cradle.
Only one thing need concern us

the doing of our duty, hour by hour,
as
it
comes
to us.
We
have nothing
whatever to do with the keeping of

our
own
lives.
We
never need to ask

is
whether a certain way

to ask
safe
for us.
Absolutely the only question

is,
we need
what God would have us to do. His way is the safe way, though If we it be through a thousand perils. listen for the divine voice, and then
follow
it
without
question,
we
way
to
shall
ever be under the wings of God.
The
legends
tell
of
the
the
Holy Family were

provided
led, protected
flight
and
But
for, in the
Egypt.
We
call
these apocryphal stories.

23

no
matter.
Heaven was
is
really
all
open
over these peasant travellers
the way.
So heaven
the divine
seeks safety
open over every one who and care in obedience to
command.
24
THE HOLY CHILDHOOD

TXT'E
different
are
apt
to
think
that,
as
child,
Jesus
must
have
been
from other children.

that
When
we remember
God,
it
He
was the Son of

even in
seems to us that there must

revealings
have been divine
His infancy.
The apocryphal Gospels

boyhood
in
a
make
efforts
the story of Christ's

miracle."
" blaze of
to
But
their
show His divine character they give us a most undivine portraiture.
depict
smiting
resist
The Child Jesus, as they Him, is cruel, vindictive, down other children that
desires.
25
His
His
bearing
is
THE HOLY CHILDHOOD

forward
and ungentle.
He
is
mis-
chievous and domineering.
Altogether different, however,
is
the
portraiture of the childhood of Jesus
given in the Gospels.
He grew up
among
in
other children, with nothing

to set
Him
Him
apart from them.
He
did.
was not precocious, but learned

study, as
His lessons by hard
they
He
was humble and simple in

about Him, sweet and
His manner, obedient to His parents,

gentle to
all
beautiful in His disposition.
He was
the Son of God, but the divine glory

in
Him
was revealed in a perfectly

influences
natural
human childhood. We may think of the

this
life
amid which
His
Holy Child grew up.

was pure and gentle,
26
home
with an atmosphere of love and prayer.
CHILD JESUS CHRIST AS A

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Cotyriaht Hctders
:
FUtr.nh School Uentpocls. Co/<mfvru.>
Broun. CUinent
Sr Co.,
Paris, i)o
THE HOLY CHILDHOOD

Nazareth
beauty.
a
as
was
like
garden
in
its
The
of
village,
nestling within
circlet
hills,
has been described
"
like a handful
of pearls in a goblet
of emeralds."
We know
that
in
one
sense
the
Child Jesus was different from other He was sinless. This means children
that
He
lived a life of
communion with
But
this
God from His

did not
earliest years.
make Him unnatural or unwholesome in His life, it only made
Him
in
ful,
the sweeter.
Love always ruled
Him.
He
was gentle and thought-
never unkind, severe, censorious.
His sinlessness did not make

prodigy
divine
Him
in
among His
in
playmates.
revealed
The
the
Him
was
graces which everywhere are recognised

as the fruits
of the Holy
29
Spirit.
THE HOLY CHILDHOOD

Artists seek to
put the most marthe

face
vellous
beauty
into
of the
Child Jesus.
tiful.
No
heart
doubt
He
was beauface,
The
makes the
and
the perfect love and grace that dwelt

in
Him
must have made His counte-
nance altogether lovely.
30
THE YOUTH OF
JESUS
CHRIST
be so
little,
npHOUGH
is
it
enough
told us of the youth of Jesus

fill
Christ to enable us to
beautiful picture.
out a very
the charms
One of
of childhood
as
is its
continual unfolding,
when
till
rosebud
opens,
little
by
not
in
little,
the full-blown rose delights
us.
The growth of
Jesus
It
was
abnormal, but natural.

piety only that
as
was not
well
He
He grew, but
" waxed
stature."
physically,
strong,"
and
be-
" advanced in came " filled
He
also
with
wisdom," which
a diligent learner.
means
that
He
was
31
THE YOUTH OF
We
are told
also that
" the grace of
God was upon Him," and that He " advanced ... in favour with God
and men." grew more
This means that His
life
and more
beautiful
and
lovable continually.
A
He
single
word
His
gives
glimpse
penter."
of
youth
us
another the " car-
He wrought
It
at a trade until
dropped His tools to begin His
public ministry.
to a tired
means
a great deal
man,
as
he reads the story,
to be able to say,
" Yes, yes, a carpenter, same trade as mine,
It
I
warms
my
heart as
read that
I
line.
can stand the hard work,
can stand
the
poor pay.
For
I'll
see that Carpenter at
no distant day."
Another thing about the youth of

Jesus
is
that
He
found the sphere for

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THE CHILD CHRIST

By
P. A. y. DiJf^nan HiU.iKl.
d iilimp\:niiy
:
Frciuh School
Copyright HoUUrs
Braun, CUmtnt
&
Co., Parii,
and
the Painter
Ccpyright, igoj, by Braun, Cl.'incnt
&
Cv.
JESUS CHRIST
His glorious
life's
life
with
all
its
powers in
common
that
duties.
We
Son
of
might
think
being
the
God
He would
in
be exempt from the tasks of
ordinary childhood.
But
He
visit
differed
no sense
in this respect
first
from other
to
children.
At His
the
fully
temple
Father.
He
seems to have become
aware of His relation to the heavenly
But with
this
new
glory in
back to His peasant home with His mother and Joseph and
His heart.
He went
He found His was subject to them. " Father's business " in the obediences,
obligations
station.
and
tasks
of
His lowly
The youth
truest
of Jesus teaches that the

life
is
and divinest
place,
the one that
in
its
high or low, does best
the will of God.
Browning
35
tells
of an
YOUTH OF
angel
JESUS CHRIST
the
place
who took
of a dis-
contented boy and did his lowly task-
work.
"
He
If
to Him all one did God's will on the earth or in the sun."
Jesus teaches us that the

carpenter's apprentice
is
life
of the
as the
as
holy
ministry of a radiant angel about God's throne.
36
npHE
is
artist's
thought in
his picture
that the
it
Carpenter as
not come to
shadow of the young fell upon the wall was

life.
a prophesy of His
The
cross did
shadow
rested
Him as a surprise its on Him in the brightest,
There was no hour when He did not see what the end would Other men are born to live be. Other men Jesus was born to die.
busiest days.
look
forward
in
to a
goal
of splendid
achiev-
success
the world
great
ments,
worthy
attainments,
37
power,

position,
honour
the goal of Jesus was
His
cross.
In His earliest infancy the shadow

fell
over
Him.
He
was saved from
death only by flight into Egypt.
When
out to
John the
of
Baptist pointed
Him
his friends as the
Messiah, he spoke
Him
as
the
Lamb
of God, the
Lamb
the
of Sacrifice.
In His teaching Jesus revealed from

first
His
consciousness
death.
of
of
life
His
the
appointment to
earliest incidents
One
of His public with

that
was
of
His
to
conversation
Nicodemus,
the
is,
whom He said Man must be lifted

that
all
Son
up, that
see
cross,
believe.
might
the
on His Him and

too,
He
His
told
people,
that they
would destroy the temple,

body.
38
meaning
When
Peter,
THE SHADOW OF DEATH

By W. Hohnan Hunt. OM., ConUmporaiy
British School
Reproduced from a Large Engraving by F. Slacfoole, AJljt.

Copyright Holders
;
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speaking for
all
the disciples, said that
He
was the Christ, thinking, however,

glorious
at
of a
earthly
royalty,
Jesus
began
suffer
once to say that
He
must
many
things and must be killed.
This was His
own
interpretation of the
Messiahship which His disciples had so
nobly confessed.
When
King
two of His followers, dream-
ing of the brilliant court of the great

that they supposed their Master
first
about to become, asked
places in
His kingdom.
He
spoke to them of a
cup
with
He must which He
if
drink and a baptism
must be baptized, and

must
be.
asked them
they were ready for such
a course as His
When
a feast
was given
for
in
His honour and a
woman
anointed Him,
it
His
He said she had done burial. When He would give

41

His friends a memorial of His love,
it
was not His wonderful teachings, nor His great miracles that He asked them
to
remember, but that Himself for them.
He
had given
Thus from the infancy the shadow of the cross

the
soul
to the close,
rested
it
upon
not
of Jesus.
Yet
did
sadden Him.
man
lived
Never sunnier-hearted than He. He knew the
meaning of the cross, that it would make redemption for the world, so He went to it with joy, singing a hymn as
He
left
the upper
room
for the garden.
42
"NOT DEAD, BUT

SLEEPETH "
TT
is
charming
story.
Probably
had not sought to know Probably he would Jesus hitherto.

Jairus
not
have
sought
Him now
otherwise
but
for
his distress.
Trouble turns to Christ

that
many
girl
heart
would
little
never have gone to Him.
This
was the
father's
only child.
That
at the
made her
dearer.
She was
now
point of death.
That made the case

that
if
most urgent.
Jairus
believed
only Jesus
would come and lay His hands on her she would live. The Master responded
43
"NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPETH"

instantly,
and
father.
He
set
out with
there
the
anxious
But
was
an
interruption.
their
As they were
out
her
pressing
way through
reached
the
the crowd, a poor
woman
touched
hand
and
Master's
garment.
We
might think that Jesus would not have allowed Himself to be detained for a
moment even by
but
another case of need,

the
to
He lingered to help When He was ready
woman.
go on, a
messenger came and said to the ruler, " Thy daughter is dead ; why troublest
thou the Teacher any further
death
?
"
When
comes
all
is
over.
But Jesus
said quietly to the father,
" Fear not,
only believe."
It is
never too late for
Him
to help.
So they went on to the

professional
44
house.
Already
the
mourners
H o < Q
05
*:
"c (Q *
<
O ^
"

were
in
charge,
Jesus
making
their
noisy
clamour.
sought to quiet the
tumult, but the mourners paid no heed

to
His words, only laughed

still
at
Him.
The world
immortality.
laughs at the hope of

exercised His
all
Then He
them
authority and bade
leave the
room.
His
be
Only the parents and three of

disciples did
own
He
permit to be
faith
with Him.
Only love and

to
could
admitted
scene
of
it
such
solemnity and
fitting that
awe.
the
Besides,
little girl
was
when
not
awoke
by the
she
should
be
abashed
presence of a crowd in her room.
The manner
was
beautiful.
of working the miracle
The Master had

did not merely
a most
tender love for children, and this was

a child.
He
her
call her,
but
took
hand, and
47
then
said,
"

" Talitha cumi ; Damsel, I say unto There was no delay, no thee. Arise."
slow returning of the
life.
Instantly
the child rose up, and walked.
Either
their great joy at having their daughter
back again, or their feeling of awe
at
what
had
taken
place,
caused
the
parents to forget the child's need, until
Jesus bade
eat.
them give her something
to
48
"
LORD, SAVE ME "
TT
He
was one of the strangest nights

of our Lord's Hfe.
In the evening
sent the disciples out
upon the sea Then He went up into the alone. mountain and spent the night with His Father. A storm came on, and the
little
boat was wildly
tossed
in
the
waves.
From His
place
of
prayer
Jesus kept His eye on
His
disciples.
He
saw them distressed
in rowing,
morning He came walking on the water.

toward
to
and them
Then
it
was
that
Peter called to
Jesus, " Bid
me come
It
unto Thee upon

like
the waters."
was just
49
Peter,
E
"LORD, SAVE ME"

loving and eager, but impetuous and
rash.
Still,
the Master said "
Come,"
and instantly the disciple stepped out While he kept his from the boat. eye on his Master he walked on the water as if it were a solid pavement. But for a moment he saw the waves, and at once began to sink. In his despair he cried, " Lord, save
me," and immediately Jesus reached out His hand and lifted him out of the But while He was rescuing waters. him, He said, " O thou of little faith,
wherefore didst thou doubt
?
"
The
have
as
words show that Peter need not have

sunk into the
continued
to
sea.
He
could
he began.
to
on the water Jesus had bidden him

walk
to
come, and the bidding implied
ability
do
it.
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^'LORD, SAVE
ME"
Nothing is impossible to faith. A good man said, " Doing what can't be done is the glory of Christian living."
Anybody can do
be done, but
Christian to
It
it
the things that can the privilege of the
is
do what cannot be done.

''
was a prayer of Augustine's,
Com-
mand what Thou wilt, Thou commandest."

littleness
then give what

It
is
only the
of our faith that causes our

to
fall
achieving
below
us.
what
our
Master expects of
Though Peter's peril was caused by his own fear, the Master did not disregard
his
cry.
He
is
patient
with
our
failures,
pitiful
with
our weakin
nesses,
and His love never wearies

us.
delivering
faith
is
But
?
be so small
why The
should
our
Strong
are
One
ever beside us.
When we
doing
"LORD, SAVE ME"

what
He
has bidden us to do,
when
;
we
us,
are in a place to
which
He
has sent
we need never
fail
fear
nor faker
we
cannot
but through the failure of
our
own
faith.
54

TESUS
to
loved the children.
He
was
pleased, too, to have
Him.
back
His
the
disciples
them come would have
kept
babies, but
He
mothers with their said, " Suffer the little

;
children
to
:
come unto Me
forbid
them not for to such belongeth the kingdom of God." Then He took them in His arms and blessed them. Jesus repeatedly showed His love Once when His disciples for children.
asked,
''
Who
is
?
greatest in the king"
dom
child,
said,
of heaven
He
him
shall
called
in
a little
and, taking
His arms,
" Whosoever
humble him-
55

self as
this
little
child,
the
same
is
greatest."
Then He went on
of
It
to speak
in
of the
clearness
sight.
the
is
children
Heaven's
a great crime.
He said, to hurt a He spoke also
child.
of the
honour
in
which children are held in heaven. Sometimes they are despised on earth. " It is only a child," men say, and pass
one place where no " I say unto you," child is despised. " that in heaven their said Jesus,
on.
But there
is
angels
do always behold the
face
of
My
Father
who
is
in heaven."
The
They
angels set to guard the children have

peculiar
privilege
in
heaven.
always have precedence.

It is related
of the Jesuit missionary,

that
Francis
Xavier,
once
in
utter
rest.
exhaustion he said he must have

56
SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME

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Paris,
and
tht Painter

So he retired to
his tent,
charging that
no matter who came he must not be disturbed. Soon his servant saw the monk's white face at the tent door, and heard him say, " I made a mistake.
If
Httle
child
comes, waken me."
That was Hke Jesus. He was never too weary to give attention to a Httle
child.
On
every page of the gospel
we
see
the figure of Jesus standing, reaching
out His hands to the children.

there
is
Indeed,
for
no place
in
His kingdom
any
enter
but
children.
The
old
must
become children again before they can

the
heavenly
household.
A
old
picture
by Watts
represents
an
man, worn and

his chair, dying.
feeble,
lying back in
lie
Round him
59
the
in
signs of
all
that he has
been doing

his
busy
life.
Then above
in the
his
head
is
an angel bearing awav his soul, new-
born through death,
form of a
it
baby
be
child.
That
is
the
all.
way
must
at the last
with us
Before
we
is
can enter heaven

children.
we must become
little
Of such and of such
only
the
kingdom.
60

JESUS
is
loved the Sea of Galilee.
It
only a small lake, and yet no

is
other body of water on the earth

sacred.
It
is
so
associated
with
life.
many
holy memories of our Lord's
He
wrought many of His miracles along its shores. He often sailed upon its
waters
with
His
disciples.
Several
times
He
was
in the storms that are so
frequent on the Lake, and by His

quieted
the
word
the
winds
and calmed
raging waves.
Many
of Christ's wonderful words

Sea. a
were spoken by the
Sometimes
fishing-boat,
He
would
sit
in
6i

anchored a
little
and speak to the the shore. He was a wonderful teacher. He was the Son of God. Other great teachers declare the truth Jesus was Himself
way from people on
the land,
the truth.
He revealed God in His teaching. He was called the Word. A word

reveals.
The world could not by any

find
searching
out
God, but
was
Jesus
declared
Him.
He
God
Himself,
speaking to men.
ings
Not in His teachonly did He make God known,

life.
but also in His

heart of
People saw the
God
in Christ's life of purity,
gentleness, kindness,
compassion
and
mercy.
He
said,
"
He
that hath seen
Me
hath seen the Father."
Other
men
lives
have taught beautiful lessons, inculcated

a lofty morality, but in their
62
own

have failed to exemplify their teachings.
Every word
that
Jesus spoke was
beam of
light shining out in
His own
character.
Jesus was a most gracious teacher.
The world was
stained with
sin
and
un-
He
brought
the
revealing
of divine
mercy.
Everywhere
men were
happy, unsatisfied, and

rest.
He
spoke of
There was sorrow in every home People and He came with comfort. were groping in darkness and He came to lead them in the right way.
The
Christ
influence of the teachings of

is
immeasurable.
the
Dr. Fairbairn
compares
words of Christ to a
sweeten them.
handful of spices cast into the world's

bitter waters to
They
of
F
are also, as
suggested in one of His

parables,
65
own
seaside
handful

heavenly seeds
wâstes to
scattered
over
dreary
change them into a garden.

all
They have touched

and have
left
the wôrld's
life
cleansing, enriching and
uplifting everywhere.
There is silence now on the lonely and deserted shores of the Sea of
where once the great Teacher spoke, but the words that fell there from His lips have lost none of their
Galilee,
graciousness, their
life,
their heavenly
" Heaven and earth shall pass away," He said, " but My words shall
music.
not pass away."
66
CHRIST AT THE DOOR
pERHAPS
ever
no other great picture

is
painted
richer
in
its
spiritual teachings
than
Holman Hunt's
It is a
" Light of the World."

in itself.
gospel
stands
The
Saviour of
men
before us in imposing beauty, masterful
and kingly
as
in his strength.
He
His
is
clad
in a priestly robe, indicating
office
is
it
Redeemer.
On
His
head
a a
crown, suggesting royalty, but
is
crown of thorns, reminding us of His His form is suffering and sacrifice.

luminous
He
is
the
Light
of
the
world, not only in His teaching, but

also in
His person. His character.

67
He
CHRIST AT THE DOOR

carries in
His hand a lantern, symbol

to
live
of His teachings, which have gone into

all
the world, a lamp
men's
feet,
showing them how to
and giving
is
joy and comfort everywhere.
The
attitude of the Saviour
also
in accordance with the
representation
is
of the Scriptures.
He
standing at
the door of a cottage, interpreting His
own word
I
in the Revelation
" Behold,
stand at the door and knock."
His
does
face shows
eager love
and yearning.
He
save
longs to be admitted.
He
not wait to be sought, but seeks to
and to
bless,
coming Himself from
heaven to men's very doors to be their

guest.
In this representation
we have
meaning of the Incarnation, with its love and condescension, its revealings of tenderness and compasthe whole
68
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

By William Holman Hunt.
OM
Contemporary British Sikool

Photograph by the Autotype Co., 74, New Oxford Street, London
From a
Copyright
CHRIST AT THE DOOR

sion,
its
sacrifice.
is
He
is
knocking,
and
there
is
knocking o
is still
shut,
no indication that His heeded within. The door there is no sign that it is
Yet the heavenly Friend
impatient, does not turn
being opened.
has not
grown
away.
He
stands in a listening attitude,

to
and continues
love, grace,
in His face as
knock.
All divine
and yearning are expressed
He
stands there.
As we look
closely at the picture,

it.
we
is
find another teaching in
There
no knob or latch outside the door. It can be opened only from within. We have this also in the words in
Revelation
''
:
Behold,
:
stand at
the
door and knock

in to
if
any man hear

I
My
voice and open the door,
will
come
Him."
Why
71
does
He
not force
the door and enter with the blessing
CHRIST AT THE DOOR

He
longs to bestow
love.
It
?
way of
waits.
That is not the only knocks and

it
We
can shut
out
if
we
will.
We
can shut out the mighty, patient,
loving Christ,
opened
we Will we ?
if
will.
Have we
72
THE LORD
'T^HE
and
IS
MY SHEPHERD
is
shepherd
a favourite Scrip-
tural
picture of the divine
love
care.
In the Old Testament, the
twenty-third Psalm gathers the whole
wonderful
truth
in
exquisite
lines
which
in
are
dear
wherever the
the
New
would
young and old Bible is known. Then Testament, when our

to
Lord
give
His
friends
the
sweetest revealings of His heart toward
them, and
Him them. He
to
them what they and what He would be

tell
are
to
says,
''
am
the
Good
Shepherd."
The
eastern shepherd lives with his

73
THE LORD
sheep.
IS
MY SHEPHERD
If they are exposed
If they are out in the storm,
he
is
with them.
is
to danger, so
he.
Christ lives with

enters
His people.
relations
afflictions
He
is
into closest
with
them.
afflicted.
In
all
their
He
The storm
them smites Him. The shepherd knows his sheep. He has a name for each one and calls them all by their names. Christ knows each one of His friends, has intimate personal knowledge of each one. He knows the best in us and
that smites
also the worst, our faults, our sins, our
wanderings.
are,
Yet, knowing us as
still
we
He
loves us
and never wearies

most gentle with
of us.
The shepherd
his sheep.
is
He
does not drive them,
but goes before them and leads them.

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THE LORD
When
IS
MY SHEPHERD
way he
for
they need rest on the
makes them He down, and chooses

but
their resting-place not the dusty road,
green pastures.
He
is
specially
kind to the lambs, gathers them in his
arms and
All this
is
carries
them
in his
bosom.
in
is
an exquisite picture of the
gentleness of our
Good Shepherd
sheep.
His
loves
care
of
His
He
thoughtful
the
toward
the
weak.
He
makes room for them on His bosom. Whatever the need is, there is something in the heart of Christ which meets its craving and supplies its lack.
children and
The shepherd defends

all
his
flock in
risk
danger.
safety,
Often he has to
even his
life,
his
own
His
in protecting
his sheep.
life
The Good Shepherd

His sheep.
77
giveth
for
THE LORD
And His
IS
MY SHEPHERD
" In His feet and hands are wound-prints,

side."
Christ's sheep are absolutely safe in
His keeping.
eternal
shall
life,"
"
give
;
He
said
unto them " and they
never perish, and no one shall
snatch them out of

at last
My
hand."
Then
He
vîll
bring His
shall
own
all safely
home, " and they

flock,
become one
one shepherd."
THE COMPASSION OF
CHRIST
showed His sympathy with the weak and the wronged. That was not the way
revealing of Christ
T^VERY
of the world in His day.

oppressed
the
The
strong
weak.
No
provision
was made
All that
for the feeble, the destitute.
we
see
in
the world to-day

is
of pity, of sympathy,
Christ's
hospitals,
the fruit of
own
life
and teaching.
all
All
homes, refuges,
in
the vast
work done now

blind,
institutions for the
the
crippled,
is
the
insane,
the
aged, the orphaned,
the continuance
of the gracious ministry of Jesus

79
Him-

self
begun
nineteen
hundred
years
ago.
The
tive
heart of Christ was ever sensi-
to
human
distress.
No
cry of
pain failed to awake sympathy in His

breast.
this.
The people soon discovered They were not used to it in

and
rulers.
their teachers
But they
soon learned that Jesus really cared for them, that He felt with them in their
and need and that He could help them. Wherever He went, the sick were brought to Him, the blind,
suffering
the demoniac,
and no one was ever

not
only
those
turned away unhealed.
But
it
was
ills
with
at
physical
that found
sympathy
the hands of Jesus.
There
are sorer
needs than those
of the body.
80
An
Arctic explorer was asked whether, in
Sibd^faer
"COME UNTO
ME. ALL YE
Dietrich,
THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY-LADEN "

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iî^yr l/Cfc/
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Street.
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their long experience of want,
his
he and
companions had suffered greatly
from the pangs of hunger.

in
He
an-
swered that they forgot their hunger

the sense of abandonment, in the
that
their
effort
feeling
countrymen were
to
relieve
making no
them.
The
had
hardest thing the poor, the sick
and the suffering of our Lord's time

to bear
was that nobody cared for
them.
on
But Jesus cared. He had pity them because of their physical
needs but His compassion was stirred

chiefly because
He
saw them
appeared,
as
sheep
that
had no shepherd.
Jesus
Wherever
distress
human
found
no truer which represents needy ones, all
There can be picture of Him than one
Him.
Him
of
83
in
the midst of
whom
look
to

Him
for help.
He
was ever speaking

fell
gracious words which
like heavenly
music on the ears of those who heard
Take one of His words for *' illustration Come unto Me, all ye
them.
:
that labour
I
and are heavy laden, and
you rest." If Jesus had never spoken another word but that, He would have been the world's
will
give
greatest
benefactor.
call
What
!
millions
have heard His
found
that
blessed
rest
and in Him have For ever will

continue
to
gracious
word
be
for
as
spoken to
ever will
offering
all
earth's
weary ones and

it
hungry hearts welcome

they need.
84
UNREQUITED LOVE
TESUS came
people,
as
the Messiah of His
but
His
own
received
Him
not.
few individuals accepted
Him, among them the Twelve and a little company of men and women. These were ardently devoted to Him. They believed in His Messiahship,
although they did not understand what
it
meant.
not.
But
His
nation accepted
Him
in
Him.
The rulers never believed They opposed Him from

their
the
beginning, and
opposition
grew in bitterness until at last they had Him on a cross. This was their
return for His love.
85
UNREQUITED LOVE
Christ's
reproofs of His people for
their rejection
were very
severe.
Some
of them were spoken in the temple,

before
He
to
finally left
it.
Some were
from
bare
the
laid
spoken
hearts
the
Olives.
disciples
Mount of
of
He
the
the
teachers
and
rulers.
They bound heavy burdens on

people,
the
but
they themselves did not
touch them with one of their fingers.
They devoured widows' houses, and then made long prayers that men might think them holy. They paid
tithes
of the smallest things, but judgfaith
ment, mercy and
they omitted
from their lives. They were careful to keep their dishes clean, but they paid no heed to their own inner lives.
It
was with breaking heart that
He
told
them of the doom

86
that
was im-
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Co., Paris,
and
the Painter
UNREQUITED LOVE
pending.
that killeth
"
Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
the prophets, and stoneth

!
them that are sent unto her how often would I have gathered thy children
together, even as a hen gathereth her
chickens
under
!
her
wings,
and
ye
would not Behold, your house is left unto you desolate." There are two marvels here. One
is
that the rulers could have rejected

Christ.
Jesus
He came
doing good,
going about in a marvellous ministry

of mercy.
the
He came
of
offering
them
all
blessings
eternal
life.
How
Him
?
could they despise and reject
The
love
in
other marvel
is
that Jesus kept

all
His heart
through
city
their
as
rejection.
On Palm
the
Sunday,
He
the
was riding into
amid
acclaim and enthusiasm of the people,

89
UNREQUITED LOVE
when He
and the
passed the crest of the
hill
city
came
into His view.
He
broke into loud weeping and cried, " If thou hadst known, in this thy
day, even thou, the things which be-
long to thy peace

hid
but
love of from thine eyes." Christ failed not, though unrequited,
now The
they are
though treated so unjustly, though the His answer answer to it was a cross.
to the rejection was redemption.
90

TT
the
was
only
five
days
before
the
crucifixion.
This
day Jesus
was
people's idol.
Was He Himself
popular outpouring
that
for
deceived
by
?
this
and acclaim
so
Did He suppose
of
at last, after their rejection
Him
?
long,
they
were
now going
Messiah
to
:
accept
Him
as their
No
He knew it was only a day. He knew this
the outburst of
was but the
first
stage of His last journey to the cross.
As He heard the cries of the throng, " Hosanna to the Son of David "
!
there was an undertone ringing in His

91

ear,
and the words of the undertone

" Ride on, ride on in majesty, In lowly
were
pomp
ride
on to
die."
There
spiritual
must have meaning in
been
the
deep
triumphal
for
entry, since Jesus

it.
Himself planned
was a declaration of His MesThe prophet had foretold siahship.

It
that the Messiah should
very way.
come in this "Behold, thy King cometh
unto thee
and having salvation ; lowly, riding upon an ass." In thus claiming that He was the per:
He
is
just,
son
to
whom
the
prophet
referred,
and
in thus bringing about the fulfilin
ment
Himself, Jesus clearly pro-
claimed to the rulers that

Messiah.
He
was the
There was
also
92
in
the
manner of
6s
II
I
<
2 ^
W ^ " c
w ^
51 w
-t
Otf
"

this
triumphal entry an announcement

If
of the character of His kingdom.

it
had been an earthly royalty that
He
was proclaiming,
He would
have
come
was
riding in a war chariot.
The
ass sug-
gested lowliness and peace.

the king
He
of love, not of
fill
strife.
He
came
to
the world with blessing,
not with carnage.
As we look
enthusiasm and
at the
people in their
hear their rejoicings,
we cannot
forget that in five days the
Passover throngs cried "Crucify
Him
and we learn how

thusiasm
is.
fickle
worldly en-
picture by Tintoretto
gives the scene of the Crucifixion after

all
was
over.
It
is
evening.
The
multitude has dispersed.
of thorns
is
lying near
The crown Then in by.

is
the background an ass

95
nibbling at

some withered palm
the story
leaves.
That
tells
of the
trans cience
of the
world's honour.
The Palm Sunday pageant was

a
day's
spectacle.
but
to
Jesus
went
cross
and not
its
to an
earthly
throne.
But in
deeper meaning His entry

indeed.
into Jerusalem was a triumph
The
cross
was the way to His true

is
glory.
Now He
Him
in
our King and
we
are with
His triumph.
96
REMEMBER
JESUS CHRIST
/ÛR
ness
Master craved to be rememThis showed His humanus
bered.
none of
want to
love.
want to be forgotten.
in the hearts of those
We
we
live
But
this
was not the only

be reto
reason
why
Christ wished to
membered.
the world.
getting
He
had
come
save
This was to be done by
men
This love
rule our
Him. must be strong enough to

personally to love
life
whole
and lead us to the

Therefore
most complete
His
for
devotion.
disciples
must remember
is
Him,
remembering
part of love.
The
Lord's Supper was intended to

97
REMEMBER
brance.
JESUS CHRIST
keep Christ always vividly in remem-
We
He
to
are
to
think
of
Him
when we have
of what
in our
hands the sacred
memorials of His love, reminding us

did to redeem us.
But
de-
we
are
think of
are
Him
just as
voutly
when we
table,
away from the

the
sacramental
in
midst
of
worldly tasks and circumstances.

If
will
we
always remember
faithful
Christ
it
keep us
in
our
loyalty.
He
wants us to be
streets,
as true to
Him
out
on the
His
and
tempted and
was a young
tried, as
when we are when we are at

only a few days
feet in prayer.
In a battle, there
soldier,
from home, who fought as bravely as any old veteran, and fell on the front
line.
After the battle they found in
his blouse pocket, just over his heart,

98
REMEMBER
the picture of a
JESUS CHRIST
fair girl's face.
That
If
was the secret of

carry
his
courage.
Christ
we
our
the
memory of
fail
in
hearts in the places of trial
and
testing,
we will
all
never
Him.
The
secret of
the noble heroisms of the
Church
has been passionate love for Christ.
Remembering
us into His
Christ will transform
likeness.
Our thoughts
temple
of
If
are the builders that rear the
of
our
character.
we
will
think
unclean things our

unclean.
things
If
will
lives
become
earthly
If
we
if
think
of
we
grow
earthly.
we
are
think of Christ,
in our
will
thoughts of
Him
mind and heart continually, we come moment by moment into

highest attainment in Christian
His beauty.
The
life is
always to remember Christ, never

lOI
REMEMBER
to forget
JESUS CHRIST
Then we
out
Him,
to keep ever before us

shall
His blessed
lose
face.
never
His
peace
shall
of
fail
our hearts.
Then we
be
will
never
Him
in
any
duty or struggle.
lonely,
for
Then we
shall
never
Christ
remembering
keep us ever conscious of His
presence.
02

OERVING
learn.
is
not an easy lesson to

it is
But
a lesson
we must
like
learn if ever
we would become
our
Master.
He came
not to be ministered
unto, but to minister.

the uttermost, just as
He served to He loved to the

that
uttermost.
Anything
as
needed to
breathed.
be done for another

rally
He
did as natu-
and
simply as
He
He
in
loved people, and was interested
them and was ready always
to be
helpful to them.
Then
service
it
never mat-
tered
it
what the
was, whether
was the saving of a soul, the curing

103

of a grievous sickness, or the giving of
a cup of water
He
as
did the least as

divinely
as
graciously
greatest.
and
the
The washing of feet was the lowliest service any man could do for another.
It
was the work of the lowliest
slave.
Yet Jesus without

service for His
hesitation did
disciples.
this
own
Thus
He
is
taught them that nothing any one

to have
may ever need

unlit
done by another
hands.
for the whitest
We
begin to be like Christ only
when we
ser-
begin to love others enough to serve
them without asking whether the

vice
is
something that we
may do
without the loss of dignity.
" One day a stranger entered an

artist's
studio
in
Milan.
The
was
artist
was
busy within.
104
He
engaged
CHRIST WASHING PETER'S FEET

lt\
Ford Uadox Hrcuit, lintish School W. A. Mansell
From a Photograph by
&
Co..
London

upon
a
copy of one of
the
at the
great
masters.
He
of the
was working
stranger.
head
he
of a Christ and appeared to take no

notice
At
last
broke
the
'
the
silence,
and turned upon

impatience,
like
man
with
"
'
feverish
Speak to me,
little like ?
sir, is it
is it
ever
so
There
this
is
no
surer
test
life
of
the
genuineness of Christian
than in
Is
it
like
matter of serving others.

is
it
ever
?
so
little
like
the
Master's serving
ful
We
are too caresee the
of our dignity.
of
When we
Son
feet,
God washing His
disciples'
we should be ashamed
whether
is
ever
to
ask
anything another
may
need to have done

us to do.
liest
too menial for
king may do the low107
kindness to the poorest peasant

in his realm,
and
his
honour
will only
be enhanced by
**0 blessed
Jesus,
it.
when
see
Thee bending,
all
Girt as a servant at
Thy
servants' feet,
Love, lowliness, might, in zeal
blending,
To To
wash
share
their dust
feast,
Thy Whether Thy
away and make them meet

I
know
not to adore,
humbleness or glory more."
08
THE REFUGE
TT7HERE
of
not
to
IN
in
SORROW
sorrow
is
go
one
For
life's
great
questions.
there are none to
whom
sorrow does
some time. The Master, whose footprints are on all life's paths, shows us the way to the refuge in the
come
at
time
of
trouble.
He
in
found
an
it
in
prayer.
" Being
agony
He
prayed."
We
prayed.
may
listen
at
the gate of the
Garden and
learn
how
our
Master
He was facing a great sorrow and He pleaded with His Father

it
that
might not come to Him.

a
right,
We
in
have
therefore,
109
to
ask
THE REFUGE
imminent may
are enduring.
IN
SORROW
that
prayer that the trouble which seems

pass, or
be relieved of the bitter
we may anguish we
blame
God
will never
us for such pleading.
There was another element, however, in our Lord's praying.
In His
most intense pleading

of His sorrow
for the passing
He
still
referred
all
to
" Nevertheless, not as There is I will, but as Thou wilt." no true prayer which is not modelled
His
Father.
after
this pattern.
is
what
is
best.
We
do not know do not know what

nor what would
We
in the sorrow for us, for others, or
for the divine glory,
be
lost if
we
all
failed to
endure
it.
We
must leave
with our Father, saying,
"As Thou
Then
wilt."
the Master found the comfort
no
CHRIST AT GETHSEMANE
By
Copyright
J.
School M. HcinrUh Hofmann, Contemporary German
HoUUn
The Berlin Photographic
Co., 133.
^'w Bond
Street,
London
THE REFUGE
which
IN
SORROW
not
pass.
He
sought.
His prayer was

did
answered.
The cup
was
degree.
The
the
bitterness
not
lessened
far
in
smallest a
So
as
we
know, not
or
single cruel element in
the terrible experience was eliminated
even
in
in
mitigated
the
because
of
the
prayer
came
The answer The Holy another way.

Garden.
strengthened
it.
Sufferer
was
to
accept
the sorrow and endure
And
it
was
not that an answer

better
Was
if
not a
answer
than
the
dreadful
?
anguish had been diminished

pleading grew
less
The
intense as
He went
back again and again into the depths
end the struggle was over, victory had been won and He was at peace.
of the Garden, and
at
the
Prayer
is
always answered.
113
It
I
is
THE REFUGE
to us of
IN
SORROW
answered either directly in the giving
what we
to
ask, or in ourselves,
in enabling us
accept the will of
God and
seek
this
rejoice.
We
in
vain.
shall
never
shall
refuge
We
always find comfort there, and peace,
and always God's angel

to strengthen us.
will
meet us
114
"COULD YE NOT WATCH ONE HOUR?"
/^NE
the
of
the
saddest
elements
in
Gethsemane experience was

disappointment
in
our
Lord's
His
best
disciples.
He
chose
all
the
three
loved of them
and asked them to

strength from their
be near
Him
during His great agony.
He hoped
sympathy.
that they
to get
While
His mysterious
He went through struggle He supposed
when
This
But were waking near by. He returned to them to be

three
115
helped by their love, they were asleep.
happened
times.
His
"COULD YE NOT
friends
failed
Him
in
His
hour
of
sorest need.
One of
peasants
the legends of the Brittany
tells
red
breast.
how the The day
robin got his
of the
Cruci-
fixion, as Jesus
was being led out to

pitying
Calvary, a
bird,
Him
as
He
went on His way of sorrows, flew down and plucked one thorn from the crown of thorns He was wearing. The blood spurted from the wound
and splashed the
bird's breast.
Ever
since, the peasants say, the robin has
had a spot of red

in
upon
its
its
breast,
remembrance of
pity for
the
Master that day of sorrows.
The
from
disciples
had
it
in their
power
to
that night, not literally to pluck thorns

their
Master's
brow,
their
but
strengthen
Him
by
ii6
sympathy
0}
z
<!
-s-
-S
S s w ^ w
WATCH ONE HOUR?"

and
But
to
make His
missed
victory a
their
little easier.
they
opportunity,
and made the Gethsemane experience

harder for
Him.
There was something inexpressibly sad in our Lord's question, " What, could ye not watch with Me one hour ? " It showed the bitterness of
His disappointment.
His
request
them was
was only
asked
not
a
for
most reasonable one

one hour that
to
of
it
He
had
is
it
them
to
watch.
An
He
hour
long
keep
awake.
Then
was a service of love that

ing hard, especially
requested
of them, and love should count nothlove

for
such a
Friend as Jesus was to His disciples.
Then
had
it
was
of Peter, personally,
the question.
that Jesus asked
Peter
professed
undying
119
loyalty
and
"COULD YE NOT WATCH?"

devotion but an hour before.
Others
might be untrue to Jesus, but he could not be. Yet Peter was one of those who wearied in watching before one
little
hour had passed.

longer needs us to
The Master no
watch with
of anguish,
Him personally in hours but He is represented by
His cause and by His people, and

there
is
continual call for the watching
of love and
sympathy.
Let us not
disappoint our Master.
20
WHY
/^NE
last
DID PETER FAIL?

of
the
saddest
disappoint-
ments of the story of our Lord's

days
is
Peter's denial of his Master.
If the gospel narrative
were
fiction this
would not be
said
it
in
it.
We
truly.
would have
Peter loved
was
deeply
impossible.
Jesus
and
He
had For
received the
three
name of
he
in
the rock.
years
had been
the
under the
teaching and
constant
com-
panionship of Jesus.
He
had special
in
honour and favour

His name stands
list,
in the apostle-family.
always
first
the
and he was one of the three of the

personal
121
Master's closest
friends.
It
WHY
was he
fession
DID PETER FAIL?
who had made the great conwhich won from Jesus such
would have
said that
commendation.
We
last
he was the
his
of the apostles
who would deny

all, this
Lord.
Yet, in spite of
bravest,
most favoured apostle, this man of rock, fell most ignominiously, fell, too,
at a
time
when
friendship to his Master
ought to have made him truest and
most
loyal.
Why
fidence
did
he
fail ?
His self-con-
made him weak. He slept in the Garden when he ought to have Then he drew his been watching.
sword to defend
His
last
his Master.
His next
off.
mistake was in following Jesus afar

error was in joining the
company by the fire when he came in. The denial was already more than half
122
PETER'S DENIAL
By Graf HarrOih. Omkmporary German
Copyright Holden
i
School
The IScrlin Photographic
Co., 133.
New Bond
Street,
London
WHY
officers,
DID PETER FAIL?

sat
made when he
trying
It
down among
appear
then,
as
the
to
one of
the
them.
was
easy
when
maid twitted him with being of the

GaHlean's party, to deny
it.
Against
the
pitifiil
weakness and
faith-
cowardHness of Peter shine the

fulness
and graciousness of the Master.

it
He
heard
all
the
denial
thrice
repeated,
and
it
the
all,
oaths
and curses
It
He
was
"
heard
but loved on.
this
marvellous forbearance
It
that
saved Peter.
was the Master's look
that saved him.

I
'
think the look of Christ might seem to say,
Thou, Peter
art
thou then a
common
stone
Which
at last must break My heart upon, I For all God's charge to His high angels may Guard My foot better ? Did I yesterday
Wash
thy
feet,
My
beloved, that they should run

'neath the
like
Quick to deny Me And do thy kisses
morning sun
?
the rest betray
125
WHY
A
DID PETER FAIL?

coldly.
The cock crows

For when thy
Go and
is
manifest
!
late contrition,
but no bootless fear
final
need
dreariest,
Thou
shalt not be denied, as
My
voice, to
I
Because
I am here. God and angels, shall attest know this man, let him be clear.'
"
126
"
"WHAT SHALL
JESUS
?
DO WITH
"piLATE'S was
distinction.
most unenviable
doubt
the
No
he
felt
honoured
curator
when he was
But
a
made prohonour
of Judea.
brought him
left
responsibility
which
him weighed and found wanting. Pilate did not know when he was roused so early that April morning that that Friday was doomsday for him. He did not know when he was
going through
the
trial
the
various
stages
of
of Jesus, that he was making
such a record of infamy for himself.
He would
better
thousand
times
127
"WHAT SHALL
governor
escaped
DO
thus
have missed the honour of being the
of Judea
the
and
have
making of the
terrible
mistake he
made
that day.
failed so
just,
Yet Pilate need not have

terribly.
If he
had been simply
and had stood like a rock for w^hat was right, the day would have become one of undying honour, and not one But of everlasting obloquy for him. the question wherewith Pilate met
every
but,
crisis
was not,
will
"What
is
right?"
"What
advance
my
interest?"
He knew
wrong,
was guilty of no he confessed that he found

that Jesus
no
fault in
Him.
of the rulers
delivered
He knew
the motive
that for envy they
had
Him.
But instead of directly acquitting Him, he sought in indirect ways to

128
=5
..eg
a:
-to
WITH
JESUS
"
?
secure His release.
He
sent
Him
to
Herod, thinking thus

responsibility of
to get clear of the
meeting the question

he begged the
himself.
This
failing,
rulers to accept Jesus as the
one
pri-
soner to be set free at that passover.
But they refused, choosing Barabbas.
At
shall
this point
it
was that
''
Pilate, per-
plexed and beaten, asked,

I
What
then
do with Jesus
the
"
Instantly
came
Still
answer,
Pilate
Him." pleaded, awed by some-
" Crucify
thing in the prisoner before him, and
dreading to send
Barabbas
Him
to
the cross.
But the only answer he got was, "Free

us
still
!
Crucify Jesus
"
!
He
far in
struggled hopelessly to keep Jesus
from death, but he had gone too

his temporising.
So he yielded.
to
their
He
will.
delivered
the
prisoner
"
WHAT SHALL
taking water,
before
DO
"
?
Then
hands
he washed
his
the
people,
saying he
Just
was innocent of the blood of the
Man
he was giving up to crucifixion.
Pilate lost his opportunity.
He
is
held up before the world as a judge
who knew who stood

to
the innocence of the
before him, yet sent
Man Him
cross.
An
the
imaginative
in
writer,
describing
life
the
world of
darkness, represents Pilate as washing

his
at
hands for ever, and then looking

to find
them
them
still
and
for ever
stained.
They
will never
come
clean.
132
"
BEHOLD THE MAN "

Pilate's
last
TT
was
appeal.
He
hoped
that
the
spectacle
of Jesus
wearing the crown of thorns and the

purple robe would so
to
move
the people
for
in
pity
that they
would cry out

the appeal was
His
vain.
release.
But
While
before us,
the
Holy
Sufferer
stands
we may think of Him as He appeared that moment. " Behold
the
man
"
!
Recall His
in
its
life.
It
had
in
trial
been beautiful
its
sinlessness
and
revealings
of God.
On
His
His enemies had sought to find some flaw in Him, but they could find
^33
"BEHOLD THE MAN"

nothing.
Pilate said,
"
bring
Him
that
forth to you, that ye

I
may know
all
find
no
fault
in
Him."
Witnesses
over
could have been gathered from
the land to testify to His kindness. His

thoughtfulness, His mercy. His love,
but not one could they find anywhere

to testify to
any wrong
He
had ever
done, any injustice, any injury.
He
had been the Friend of the poor, the Comforter of sorrow, the Helper of
the weak.
As He
back
has
stands
before us now.
He
His
appears as the
man
of sorrows.
been
torn
by the cruel
is
scourge.
crown of thorns
about
His brow,
truly
as if
He
were a king.
And
He was
a king,
and
He
never was
more kingly than
in that hour.
He
was kingly in His bearing.

134
He
"BEHOLD THE MAN"

made no
plea
silent
in
His
to
it
own
defence.
He
was
all
insults,
and
when He spoke
composure.
kingly.
was with serene was
Never
man more
His love.
He
was kingly, too, in
There had not been

and sufferings
a shade of bitterall
ness in His heart under
the cruelties
He
had endured.
this
He
had come to show

once
world the love

hours.
life
of God, and His gentleness had not

failed in all those terrible
He
over
set
in
motion
in this world's
tides of love
all
which have been flowing
lands, slowly changing cruelty
into kindness, bitterness into sweetness
and making all things new. He was kingly also in His

His was a crown of sorrow,
the
suffering.
for
He
was
Redeemer of
the world.
137
Thorns
"BEHOLD THE MAN"

were the
curse
fruit
of
sin,
and
He
took our
upon Him that we might receive a crown of Ufe. He was subjected to shame in the eyes of the world that we might be welcomed to glory. Never was He more kingly than He was that
Good
Friday.
138
THE GREAT MYSTERY OF

LOVE
'npHE
cross
was the culmination of
love's
revealing.
all
The
life
of
Christ was
love.
He
to
life,
was the love

earth,
interall
God come down preted in a human

of
could understand
cross,
this
it.
so
last,
its
that
At
on the
highest
love
found
the
expression
when
gave
world.
Himself
up
to
Son of God redeem the
We
it,
can never understand the mys-
tery of this love.
We
in
139
have hints of
but
hints
only,
some of the
THE GREAT MYSTERY

higher expressions of
human
love.
The
the
immeasurable
divine
to
distance
between
Redeemer and those He died

love for ever
redeem, makes the
inexplicable.
Some
artists
have sug-
gested this mystery in their pictures
of
the
Crucifixion.
One
the
has
left
nearly everything to
the beholder.
thought of
Where
is
the form of the

vîth
Saviour
is
there
only darkness,
some
tions,
traces, little
of light,
more than suggesv^hich, as you study the
picture closely, reveal in dim, shadovs^y

outline, the
form of a
in
Man on
merest
a cross.
outline,
The
face
appears
and a ray of light shows the figure of one kneeling at the foot of the The picture suggests two cross.
mysteries
the mystery of the love of

great sacrifice,
140
Christ in
its
and then
THE CRUCIFIXION
By Lion Bonnai, Contemf'orary French
Copyright Holden
:
School
Brtiitii,
Uon Bonnat, and
CUment &
Co..
Paris
OF LOVE
the mystery
of redemption by which
is
the blessing of that sacrifice
comsouls
municated
that
to
penitent
human
bow at The cross
the cross.
is
now
the centre of the
world's hopes.
We
is
cannot understand
are sure of the
in
the mystery, but

fact
we
that
there
redemption
Saint
the
puts
blood
the
of
Christ.
in
Paul
truth
in
few great
his letters
words
of
one of
" The Son

and
if
luminous
gave
God, who loved Himself up for me."

great sacrifice
me, and
This
concenits
trating of the love of Christ
upon
himself, as
he
had been the only one Christ loved and for whom He gave Himself up,
shows us that we are

in
all
individualised
the heart of the
the
Redeemer and in meaning of His work. Each one

143

GREAT MYSTERY OF LOVE
of us
may
"
say,
"
He
loved me, and
gave Himself up for me."

Under an
eastern sky,
Amid a rabble cry, A man went forth to

For me.
die
Thorn-crowned His blessed head, Blood-stained His every tread, Cross-laden, on He sped For me."
144
LAST AT THE CROSS, FIRST
AT THE GRAVE
A/TARY MAGDALENE'S
to
devotion
Christ
is
one of the most

Tragreat
beautiful stories in the Gospels.
dition
sinner,
has
branded
is
her
really
as
but there
nothing in
the
New
cast
Testament
is
to prove that the
tradition
true.
It is said
that Jesus
had
but
seven demons
out
of her,
is
demoniacal
possession
not
identified in the Gospels with

ality.
immorher.
It
is
enough
saw
to
know of Mary
saved
in
that
the
love
of Christ
When
she
Him
145
His
divine
purity and
when His holy eye looked

L
LAST AT THE CROSS,

into her heart, her
old self perished

spot, arose
and a new woman, without

in her.
wonderful devotion to her new
Master
now
possessed
her.
great
Moravian missionary used to say, referring to Christ, " I have only one
passion, and that
is
He."
So
it
was
with
Mary
evil
life
of
it
Magdala.
Whatever
form of
her
was that had absorbed

found her, she
possessed,
before Jesus
utterly
soul,
all
was
now
In
body,
for
mind and
Christ.
by her passion
the
New
Testament
there
is
no
finer
example of the conto Christ.
secration of a
life
During the
among
tion.
the
Mary was holy women who stood

crucifixion,
love's
beholding in
marvellous
devo-
Perhaps she was present when

146
MARY MAGDALENE AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS

By Jula Jouph
Copyright HoUUrs
Ltfebvre,
Contemporary French School

Copyright, 1903
by Braun,
CUment
Sr Co.,
Paris
FIRST
AT THE GRAVE
Joseph and Nicodemus took down the body of Jesus from the cross, washed
it,
wrapped
rock.
it
in spices,
and
laid
it
to
in
rest
in the clean,
new tomb,
the
cut
the
When
other
friends
went away from the garden the record

shows us this picture of devotion " Mary Magdalene was there,
. .
sitting
over
against
the
sepulchre."
in
its
Her devotion was

depth and in
its
its
matchless
intensity.
What was
love
so
secret
It
was in
did
she
her mighty love.
But
why
did
much
Why
her
holy
loved
passion for her Master so far exceed

that of His other
friends
who
Him
too
with
unquestioned
loyalty
It was because she and devotion ? had such a distinct realisation of what
she
owed
to
Him.
149
Many
people
FIRST
know
AT THE GRAVE
they have been redeemed, but
seem to have only the faintest conception of the meaning of their redemption.
unusual
Mary
her,
understood
with
clearness
what
Christ
had
soul
done for went out

Mary's
and her
to
whole
Christ
to
Him
in adoring love.
devotion
con-
tinued to show
itself after
His death.
She had no expectation that

rise
He would
honour
was re-
again, but she sought to
His dead
body.
Her
love
warded by being the first to whom He showed Himself alive and the first to carry the news of the resurrection to the disciples.
150
THE WOMEN FRIENDS OF

JESUS
VI70MAN'S
Gospel
story.
devotion
and
fidelity
shine out very brightly
in
the
There is no mention of any woman ever showing unkindness

a
to Jesus.
A man
at last
denied Him,
plotted to
man
betrayed
Him, men
destroy
the
Him
and
put
Him on
cross.
But no
certain
woman had any
part in
wronging Him.
There were
followed Jesus
tering to
women who had

Galilee,
from
minis-
Him.
No
doubt they were

in
women whom He
had helped
to
151
some
way, and in response
His kindness
THE WOMEN FRIENDS

they devoted themselves thenceforward
to personal service to
Him.
the
The
love
of these
after
women
appears conspicuously
His death.
first
As
morning
their
of
the
day of the week began to
dawn, they were eagerly on

to
way
the
tomb of
was
to
their Friend.
Their
honour His body. The burial on Friday afternoon had been hurried, as the hour was late, and they wished now to lay fragrant
purpose
spices
in
His grave.
near in the
As they drew dim dawn and came in

rolled
sight of the tomb, they saw that the
stone
had
been
away.
They
pressed on, and, looking in, saw that

the body was not there.
This greatly
there,
perplexed them.
As they stood
however, they saw a vision of angels

in
dazzling
garments.
152
They were
THE HOLY WOMEN AT THE TOMB

liy
William Adoiphe Bouguereau. French School

Tlu Painter, and liraun, CUment
Sr
Copyright Holdtrs
Co^ Parii
OF JESUS
awed by the
vision, but as they
in reverence the angels
bowed spoke to them
words of assurance and comfort, " Why seek ye the living among the
dead
?
He
is
not here, but

tells
is
risen."
One of
the legends
of the dis-
covery of the crown of thorns and of
how
and
it
lay
on
it
the
altar
through
Passion
Week.
The
people
as
came
they
looked at
and wept,
sufferings
remembered the
of Jesus.
Then
the
very early
priest
relic,
on Easter morning entered to remove the

that
sacred
the people's hearts
might not be saddened by

glad
the
Easter day.
When
the
on the he opened
it
door he found
place
filled
with a wondrous fragrance.

not understand
it,
He
did
but as he
moved
toward the
altar the light

155
was breaking
WOMEN
it
FRIENDS OF JESUS
window, and
as
through an eastern
fell
it
that
on the crown of thorns he saw had been changed to a crown

every
of roses,
thorn
rose.
The
legend teaches the true Easter lesson.
At
is
the broken grave of Christ sorrow
turned to joy, death to
life,
dark-
ness to light, despair to hope.
156
THE WALK TO EMMAUS

TT
was a wonderful walk
the
two
friends took that afternoon.
The
only a
Man who joined them seemed common stranger. He had a

manner,
talking
kindly
and
the
three
were
soon
to
familiarly.
He opened
things His
them the meaning of

words, saying
great Scripture
comThey panions could never forget. were so pleased with His company that when they reached the end of
many
their
journey
their
they
guest,
urged
Him
he
to
become
sented.
It
and
con-
was
at their
evening meal together

157
THE WALK TO EMMAUS

that the stranger revealed
His
identity.
Perhaps, as
He
took the bread and was

it,
in the act of breaking
they saw His

nails
hands with the print of the

them.
in
it
We
;
do not know
that
just
it
how
came
we know only
was while
they were at their plain, simple evening
meal that " their eyes were opened, and

they
It
knew Him."
is
in
life's
common
experiences
that Christ usually reveals

us.
Himself to
One
of His disciples asked
Him
to
show them the Father. He desired some remarkable revealing, a great

glory, like the Sinai splendour.
said,
Jesus
these
" Have
been with you
three years, and have
you never known Me ? I have been showing you the He had been Father all the while."
this
doing
in sweet, gentle living,

158
in
CO
di
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=
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a w
I'
'I
S
I"
THE WALK TO EMMAUS

patience, in kindness, in thoughtfulness,
in
purity and simplicity of
life.
The
disciples
had seen
all
these
beautiful
things in their Master, day after day,
but they had not dreamed that these
were divine revealings, that
in
them
He
was revealing God.

is
It
the same now.

if
say that
if
Christ
Some people would work miracles,

startling things, they
He would do
believe
would
Men are on Him. looking too far away to find Christ. In his quest for the Holy Grail the knight wandered over all lands in vain, finding it at last, when he came back, We do not need to by his own gate. go far away to find opportunities to
serve Christ
in the
;
He
is
waiting continually
us, in the sick
poor
who need
l6l
who
long for our
visits, in
the lonely M
THE WALK TO EMMAUS

who who
Httle
crave friendship, in the tempted
cry out for a hand to help them
stand.
In doing
kindnesses
to
His
ones
we
will
Him
and
He
will
show our love for reveal Himself to us
in joy
and peace.
162
THE PATHOS OF DIVINE

LOVE
XTOTHING
the
is
more wonderful
Shepherd
sheep.
in
Good
His
care
than
It
His
for
care
for
lost
might
that
is
be
worth
to
while,
for
we would
a
is
is
say,
Him
whole flock
lost
wanders away and

valuable.
a flock
But
it
the loss
its
of only
one sheep that makes

heart
appeal to the
Good Shepherd. Does He really miss one among so many ? Does Christ really care when somewhere on the earth one human soul
of the
is
wandering
in the
dark ways of
sin ?
Did any mother ever have so many children that if one of them wandered
163
THE PATHOS OF
from home she would not miss it ? It would not be love in the Good Shepherd
if
He
did not miss the one that
strayed from His fold.
The
seeking of the sheep

is
by the
shepherd
a wonderful illustration of
the divine love.
He
leaves the ninety
and nine that
are safe
and goes away

silly
in search of the
one poor,
pain
sheep
fold.
that has left the
shelter of the
The
the
story
suggests
and
disas
comfort,
danger
and
suffering,
shepherd goes to the desert and
treads
on over rough ways, up

through
His
dark
for
steep
mountains,
gorges,
heart
looking
is
sheep.
His
in His quest.
it.
He
does not weary
in
" But none of the ransomed ever
knew
;
How
deep were the waters crossed
164
THE LOST SHEEP

By
Cpyright HoUUrs
:
A. V. Soord, Ccntempcrar)' Briliih School
Tht Autofypt
Co., 74,
tiew Oxford Sired, London
DIVINE LOVE
Nor how dark was
Ere
'
the
night
that
the
Lord
passed through,
He
found His sheep that was

are
lost.
Lord,
whence
those
blood-drops
all
the
way,
That mark out

*
'
the mountain's track
They were
shed for one
who had gone
astray
Ere the Shepherd could bring him back.'
"
All
this
is
wonderfully pathetic as
the story of an oriental shepherd seek-
ing his straying sheep.

all
But that
is
not
that
is
in the story.
The Master
the beautiful
would not have

story merely to
a
recited
tell
the people about

It
common
been
shepherd.
would not
the
have
put
into
Gospels
if
among
were
all.
heavenly
revealings
is
that
Christ Himself
the
Good
Shepherd, and what

parable
souls.
is
He
tells
us in His
how He
one ever
167
seeks lost
strays
human
No
away from
PATHOS OF DIVINE LOVE

God and
unsought.
care,
is
allowed to go on unmissed,
one on the earth may and no one may seek to bring

save
No
back and
But
until
the
imperilled
cares
one.
seeks
always
Christ
and
He
finds.
i68
THE KING AND

TESUS
in
HIS
KINGDOM
much
it
His teaching spoke
of His kingdom. of the day
On
that
the evening
He
died, however,
did
not
seem probable
a
He would
found
kingdom, or leave anything behind Him in this world that would

But three days
after
endure.
His death
and
burial,
He
everything.
divine.
His apostles
the
That changed It proved that He was few weeks later He met and outlined a plan for
arose.
conquest
of
the
world.
meeting was by appointment

not accidental, and
First, Jesus
it
The
it
was
had a purpose.
told
169
His disciples that
THE KING AND

all
HIS
KINGDOM
had
authority in heaven and earth
been given to Him.
This was a tre-
no mere man could ever make. He had won His King by His universal place as humiliation. It warms our hearts to remember that He who sits on the
mendous claim, one
throne
of
all
power
is
man
like
ourselves,
Jesus
Christ,
whom
we
know
hands,
to
be so human, so
gracious,
so loving.
With
all
authority in His
ever
nothing
can
go wrong
disciples
with us. His friends.
Then
their
Jesus
told
His
of
part.
All
authority
had been
yet
ye, theredisciples
given to
Him, but men did not

as
own Him
fore,"
Lord.
"
Go
He
to
said,
" and make

If the
of
all
the nations."
universal
claim of
Jesus
authority
was
so
170
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THE KING AND
HIS
KINGDOM
laid
upon His followers seemed vast beyond all possibility. Yet the words of the commission are so plain that there can be no mistake their as to meaning. That little handful of the
stupendous, this duty
Master's
ciples
now
followers was
all
to
make
dis-
of
nations.
Believers
of
first
to-day are the successors of the

disciples,
and the commission

is
is
theirs
now.
there
Christ
are
universal
King, but
still
millions
who
it
do not
own His
sway, and
is
our duty to
make disciples of these. The disciples might have pleaded

their
inability
to
do
this
vast
work.
But
not
the
to
Master said that they were
do
it.
it
alone
''
they
I
and
of
He
the
would do
alway,
Lo,
am
with you
even
unto
173
the
end
THE KING AND

world."
HIS
KINGDOM
presence.
He
was about to go away
into heaven as to His
human
But
He would
return
again in
stay with
His His
spiritual
presence and
Church unto the end. The promise was fulfilled and His disciples went everywhere, Christ working with them. We alone cannot win men to Christ,
but
if
Christ
is
with us, nothing can
resist
His power.
174

'
I
^HE
last
walk was along a familiar
way.
ciples
The Master and His

it
dis-
had often gone over

it
before,
and every foot of

associations
for
as
had
its
sacred
talked
them.
they
He
with
them
walked.
What
would we not give to have the words He spoke to them They must have been words of deep revealing, full of
!
love.
Their
hearts
were
strangely
comforted
by what
to
He
said.
They
never forgot those farewell words.
We
friend
remember the way a looked the last time we saw

like
him, what
he
was
175
doing, especially

if
it
was some kindness to
us.
We
his
like to recall the love that
was on
It
face
and
to
in his eyes, as
he talked to
is
us before he
esting
went away.
had
inter-
think of the
the world
last
glimpse
the
for
of Christ
ever from
before
cloud enfolded
Him
and hid
Him
men's view.
He
was in
It
the act of blessing His disciples.
was while His hands were
lifted
up,
and words of love and grace were falling from His lips, that He began
to rise.
It is
no fancy
to believe that
this is the constant attitude
of Christ
toward the world inside the gates of

heaven.
This earth
Jesus went
is
not
the only world.
away into heaven, but His life was not ended when He vanished We do not see from human sight.
176
THE ASCENSION
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Him, but He
intercession
sees us. for
us
making before God. It

is
He
makes heaven very

of Christ there.
shall see
real
to us to think
first
The
reach
face
will
we
be
when we
home
a face like our
own, the Face of our

hearts, if
Master.
Heaven draws upon our
we
love Christ.
We
are exhorted to
seek the things that are above, where

Christ
is
seated
on the
our
right
hand of
that
God.
are
to
This does not mean

neglect
in
is
we
duties,
spending
angels
our
time
spiritual
left
raptures while
our work
undone.
The
called the disciples from their heaven-
ward gazing and turned their thoughts to the duties that were waiting.
Pensive gazing
is
God
working
not pleasing
to
far
and witnessing are

179

better.
When
our friends are taken

sor-
from us we are not forbidden to

row, but
we are forbidden to sorrow in a way that would keep us from Our Master wants duty and service.
us to go back to our tasks again after
a bereavement, thoughtful and serious,
yet earnest and faithful, inspired
by
heavenly
hopes,
but
ready
ever for
earthly duties.
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LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST

ILLUSTRATED BY MODERN PAINTERS

THE GOSPEL OF THE INFANCY

THE COMING OF JESUS CHRIST

THE MOTHER AND THE CHILD

THE WATCHFULNESS OF GOD

THE YOUTH OF JESUS CHRIST

THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS

"NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPETH

CHAPTER XIII MY SHEPHERD

THE COMPASSION OF CHRIST

REMEMBER JESUS CHRIST

CHAPTER XX 'COULD YE NOT WATCH ONE HOUR?"

DID PETER FAIL?

CHAPTER XXII DO WITH JESUS?"

THE PATHOS OF DIVINE LOVE

THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.

MARY AND THE CHILD JESUS.

Contemporary French School.

JESUS CHRIST AS A CHILD.

THE CHILD CHRIST.

THE SHADOW OF DEATH.

Jacomb-Hood, Contemporary British School.

CHRIST AND PETER GALILEE.

Frederick J. Shields, Contemporary British Scliool.

SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO

CHRIST PREACHING BY THE LAKE.

von Uhde, Contemporary German Scltool.

THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.

THE GOOD SHEPHERD.

Contemporary British ScJwol.

"COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY-LADEN."

Contemporary German School.

CHRIST WEEPS OVER THE

Hippolyte Flandrin, Contemporary French School.

CHRIST ENTERS JERUSALEM.

CHRIST WASHING PETER'S FEET.

Hofmann, Contemporary German

Contemporary British School.

CHRIST BEFORE PILATE.

MARY MAGDALENE AT THE FOOT OF THE

THE SUPPER AT EMMAUS.

THE LOST SHEEP.

Auhert, Contemporary Frettch School.

THE GOSPEL OF THE INFANCY

of Jesus in His manhood's years.

great miracles, re-

vealing His divine power.

about doing good, showing the love

infancy of Jesus for supernatural

have their stories of infant prodigies,

not accept these, and are

showed no revealings of He had been anointed with

Yet in no portion of the

showed more love

His condescending to be born.

should say that the heart of the gospel

was the cross,

redemption was the Incarnation, when

ing of love and grace, the cradle of

marvellous as His cross.