ceed. At such times
Christ would have us hear Him saying, "I am the Way. If you abide in Me,
if you continue in My love, you are in the way and must be carried
forward to all good." Often we seem to lose ourselves and cannot tell
whether our faces and our steps are directed aright or not; we become
doubtful whether we have been making any progress or have not rather
been going back. Often we lose heart and begin to doubt whether it is
possible for us men ever to reach any purer, higher life; we are going,
we say, we know not whither; this life is full of blunders and failures.
Many of the best and most earnest and gifted men have owned their
ignorance of the purpose of life and of its end. No voice comes to us
out of the unseen world to give us assurance that there is life there.
How can lonely, ignorant, irresolute, weak, and helpless creatures such
as we are ever attain to anything we can call blessedness? To all such
gloom and doubting Christ, with the utmost confidence, says, "I am the
Way. Wherever you are, at whatever point of experience, at whatever
stage of sin, this way begins where you are, and you have but to take it
and it leads to God, to that unknown Highest you yearn for even while
you shrink from Him. From your person, as you are at this moment, there
leads a way to the Father."

FOOTNOTES:

[15] Or, "And whither I go ye know the way."

X.

_THE FATHER SEEN IN CHRIST._

"Philip saith unto Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth
us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so longtime with you, and dost
thou not know Me, Philip? he that hath seen Me hath seen the Father;
how sayest thou, Show us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in
the Father, and the Father in Me? the words that I say unto you I
speak not from Myself: but the Father abiding in Me doeth His works.
Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else
believe Me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and
greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father.
And whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the
Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask Me anything in
My name, that will I do. If ye love Me, ye will keep My
commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you
another Comforter, that He may be with you for