meant to be
representative. It was to be shared and repeated by all those who walk
in fellowship with Him. How much it means when a man is making his way
through some dark forest or climbing some stiff mountainside to find
the faintest sort of a trail. "Other men have passed this way," he
cries, "and what men have done, men can do again."

Here is a trail of spiritual victory, reaching on and up through all
manner of untoward situations! His own patient, bleeding feet marked
it out and thousands of His faithful followers have traversed it in
their turn. "Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can
tribulation or distress or persecution or famine, or peril or sword?
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who
loved us. For I am persuaded that neither life nor death nor angels,
nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
nor height nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate
us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

When the long, hard, dark days come it means everything to a man to
know that there is that within him which cannot go down in final
defeat. His real life, his best life, his enduring life, is hid with
Christ in God, and that life will yet have its way.

The earth is another place when it is seen to have a sky above it.
This earthly life is another thing when it is seen to have a heaven
above it and beyond it. We are saved by hope, by the hope of life
abundant, life enduring, life eternal, which shines on and on, no
matter how earth's clouds may come and go.

When all else seems to fail we look up and hear this young man say,
"Let not your heart be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in Me.
In My Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so I would have
told you. I go to prepare a place for you that where I am there ye may
be. Be of good cheer, I have overcome and by My grace you will."

Here then is my case! Here is my own tribute of loyalty and affection
for that young man who changed the history of the world. He did it by
changing men's thoughts about God--"To us there is but one God, the
Father." He did it by changing men's conception of goodness--to be
good is to be like Him, simple, genuine, spontaneous, in our love and
practice of the right life. He did it by changing the hearts of men
from within--"If any man is in Christ he is a new creature." He did it
by setting in our human