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Christ. Christ has been down here, and has made the rough places
smooth, and the dark places light, and the crooked places straight.
If we will only be led by Him, and will follow Him, all will be
peace, and joy, and rest.

In the frontier, when a man goes out hunting he takes a hatchet with
him, and cuts off pieces from the bark of the trees as he goes along
through the forest: this is called "blazing the way." He does it that
he may know the way back, as there is no pathway through these thick
forests. Christ has come down to this earth; He has "blazed the Way:"
and now that He has gone up on high, if we will but follow him, we
shall be kept in the right path. I will tell you how you may know if
you are following Christ or not. If some one has slandered you, or
misjudged you, do you treat them as your master would have done? If
you do not bear these things in a loving and forgiving spirit, all
the churches and ministers in the world cannot make you right. "If
any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His." (Romans
viii. 9.) "If any man be in Christ Jesus he is a new creature: old
things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 Cor.
v. 17.)

Christ is not only our way; He is the Light upon the way. He says, "I
am the Light of the world." (John viii. 12; ix. 5; xii. 46.) He goes
on to say, "He that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but
shall have the light of life." It is impossible for any man or woman
who is following Christ to walk in darkness. If your soul is in the
darkness, groping around in the fog and mist of earth, let me tell
you it is because you have got away from the true light. There is
nothing but light that will dispel darkness. So let those who are
walking in spiritual darkness admit Christ into their hearts: He is
the Light. I call to mind a picture of which I used at one time to
think a good deal; but now I have come to look more closely, I would
not put it up in my house except I turned the face to the wall. It
represents Christ as standing at a door, knocking, and having a big
lantern in His hand. Why, you might as well hang up a lantern to the
sun as put one into Christ's hand. He is the Sun of Righteousness;
and it is our privilege to walk in the light of an unclouded sun.

Many people are hunting after light, and peace, and joy. We are
nowhere told to seek after these things. If we admit Christ into our
hearts these will all come of themselves. I remember