uld yet be
impossible for the man who had contributed to the work, remaining what
he was, ever to enjoy the perfection of the result; himself not in tune
with the organ he had tuned, he must imagine it still a distracted,
jarring instrument. The philanthropist who regards the wrong as in the
race, forgetting that the race is made up of conscious and wrong
individuals, forgets also that wrong is always generated in and done by
an individual; that the wrongness exists in the individual, and by him
is passed over, as tendency, to the race; and that no evil can be cured
in the race, except by its being cured in its individuals: tendency is
not absolute evil; it is there that it may be resisted, not yielded to.
There is no way of making three men right but by making right each one
of the three; but a cure in one man who repents and turns, is a
beginning of the cure of the whole human race.

Even if a man's suffering be a far inheritance, for the curing of which
by faith and obedience this life would not be sufficiently long, faith
and obedience will yet render it endurable to the man, and overflow in
help to his fellow-sufferers. The groaning body, wrapt in the garment of
hope, will, with outstretched neck, look for its redemption, and endure.

The one cure for any organism, is to be set right--to have all its
parts brought into harmony with each other; the one comfort is to know
this cure in process. Rightness alone is cure. The return of the
organism to its true self, is its only possible ease. To free a man from
suffering, he must be set right, put in health; and the health at the
root of man's being, his rightness, is to be free from wrongness, that
is, from sin. A man is right when there is no wrong in him. The wrong,
the evil is in him; he must be set free from it. I do not mean set free
from the sins he has done: that will follow; I mean the sins he is
doing, or is capable of doing; the sins in his being which spoil his
nature--the wrongness in him--the evil he consents to; the sin he is,
which makes him do the sin he does.

To save a man from his sins, is to say to him, in sense perfect and
eternal, 'Rise up and walk. Be at liberty in thy essential being. Be
free as the son of God is free.' To do this for us, Jesus was born, and
remains born to all the ages. When misery drives a man to call out to
the source of his life,--and I take the increasing outcry against
existence as a sign of the growth of the race toward