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through faith happen only for him who believes. They form only an
inward experience, but real enough for him, because he sees them happen
with his spiritual eye. But they are not real for others. If that's
the case, my friend, we should be lost. Jesus may believe that the
enemy fall, Jesus may see them fall; all the same they still live and
live to destroy us."

"That is cheap logic," said the resolute Judas. "Every one has seen
how He made the lame to walk and the dead to live; even those who did
not believe. Take heed! If only the Master would make some outward
demonstration of His power you should see what He could do."

Others were of that opinion, so they followed--followed their Messiah.

But during their long wandering over the bad roads of the desert and
over the fertile plains they suffered continual distress. Although
they had now been some time in the plains they were not always in good
humour. They saw how the Master renounced the power and pleasure of
the world and yet walked the earth strong and cheerful. It was only
later that they understood how the two things could be reconciled. He
enjoyed what was harmless if it did not hurt others, but He attached
little value to it. His bodily senses were all He needed to recognise
the Father's power in nature, and to be happy in that knowledge. He
did not deny the world; He spiritualised it and made it divine. The
things of earth were to Him the building-stones for the Kingdom of
Heaven. So, in spite of increasing doubt, the disciples always found
that things came right, and they, too, determined to despise the world
and to love their simple life.

One day they came to a place in which there was great activity. Men
were ploughing in the fields, hammering in the workshops, lithe carmen
and slow camel-drivers were driving hard bargains. And it was the
Sabbath! "Did heathens dwell here?" the disciples asked. No; it was a
Jewish village, and the inhabitants were so pious that they seldom let
a Passover go by without going up to Jerusalem. Many years ago they
had heard a young man speak words in the Temple which they had never
forgotten. "Men should work on the Sabbath if it was for the good of
their fellows," the young man had preached with great impressiveness.
Now, it is generally admitted that all work is for the good of the
individual and also of the community. So they began there and then,
and had never since stopped working for a si