ruth" to express the
distinctive contribution of Christ to human history?

Sixth Day: The Master of the Greatest Game

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great
a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which
doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race
that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter
of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the
cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the
throne of God. For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying
of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in
your souls.--Heb. 12:1-3.

The man who wrote the little treatise from which this is quoted saw the
history of humanity summed up in the live spirits who had the power of
projection into the future. Faith is the quality of mind which sees things
before they are visible, which acts on ideals before they are realities,
and which feels the distant city of God to be more dear, substantial, and
attractive than the edible and profitable present. Read Hebrews 11. So he
calls on Christians to take up the same manner of life, and compares them
with men running a race in an amphitheatre packed with all the generations
of the past who are watching them make their record. But he bids them keep
their eye on Jesus who starts them at the line and will meet them at the
goal, and who has set the pace for good and fleet men for all time.

What is the social and evolutionary value of the men of "faith" in the
sense of Hebrews 11?

_Have we left Jesus behind us by this time?_

Seventh Day: The Beginning of the Greatest Movement in History

Now after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee,
preaching the gospel of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled,
and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe in the
gospel.

And passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew
the brother of Simon casting a net in the sea; for they were
fishers. And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will
make you to become fishers of men. And straightway they left the
nets, and followed him. And going on a little further, he saw
James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in
the boat mending the nets. And straightway he called them: and
they left their father Zebedee in the