in satisfactorily the relation Christ holds
to God on the one hand and to us on the other; but every man who knows
Christ at all even as he knows his friend or his father, is conscious
that a new light falls upon sin of all kinds, upon sins of appetite and
sins of temper and sins of disposition, since Christ lived. It is in
this light Christ would have us walk, and if we follow as He leads on,
we shall never lack the light of life. We need not be seriously
disturbed about the darkness that hangs round the horizon if light falls
on our own path; we need not be disturbed by our ignorance of many
Divine and human things, nor by our inability to answer many questions
which may be put to us, and which indeed we naturally put to ourselves,
so long only as we are sure we are living so as to please and satisfy
Christ. If our life runs on the lines His life marked out, we shall
certainly arrive where He now is, in the happiest and highest human
condition.

FOOTNOTES:

[33] "Many had spoken wonderfully the truths concerning our state, and
even concerning our hopes; they had sounded great depths in the sea of
wisdom; they had drawn the line between what is solid and what is vain
in life; they had caught, firmly and clearly, what was worth living for;
they had measured truly the relative value of the flesh and the
Spirit."--Dean Church, _Gifts of Civilisation_, p. 105.

XIX.

_JESUS REJECTED IN JERUSALEM._

"He said therefore again unto them, I go away, and ye shall seek Me,
and shall die in your sin: whither I go, ye cannot come. The Jews
therefore said, Will He kill Himself, that He saith, Whither I go,
ye cannot come? And He said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am
from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. I said
therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for except ye
believe that I am He, ye shall die in your sins. They said therefore
unto Him, Who art Thou? Jesus said unto them, Even that which I have
also spoken unto you from the beginning. I have many things to speak
and to judge concerning you: howbeit He that sent Me is true; and
the things which I heard from Him, these speak I unto the world.
They perceived not that He spake to them of the Father. Jesus
therefore said, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye
know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself, but as the
Father taught Me, I speak these things