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The Essence Of That By Which Jesus Overcame The World Was Not Suffering, But Obedience. Yes, Men May Puzzle Themselves And Their Hearers Over The Question Where The Power Of The Life Of Jesus And The Death Of Jesus Lay; But The Soul Of The Christian Always Knows That It Lay In The Obedience Of Christ. He Was Determined At Every Sacrifice To Do His Father's Will. Let Us Remember That; And The Power Of Christ's Sacrifice May Enter Into Us, And Some Little Share Of The Redemption Of The World May Come Through Us, As The Great Work Came Through Him.

It Is Good For Us To Think That No Grace Or Blessing Is Truly Ours Till We Are Aware That God Has Blessed Some One Else With It Through Us.

I Would Know Any Man As A Christian, Would Rejoice To Know Any Man As A Christian, Whom Jesus Would Recognize As A Christian; And Jesus Christ, I Am Sure, In These Old Days Recognized His Followers Even If They Came After Him With The Blindest Sight, With The Most Imperfect Recognition And Acknowledgment Of What He Was And Of What He Could Do.

The Danger Is That We May Fail To Perceive Life's Greatest Meaning, Fall Short Of Its Highest Good, Miss Its Deepest And Most Abiding Happiness, Be Unable To Render The Most Needed Service, Be Unconscious Of Life Ablaze With The Light Of The Presence Of God - And Be Content To Have It So - That Is The Danger. That Some Day We May Wake Up And Find That Always We Have Been Busy With The Husks And Trappings Of Life - And Have Really Missed Life Itself.

To Whatever World He Carries Our Souls When They Shall Pass Out Of These Imprisoning Bodies, In Those Worlds These Souls Of Ours Shall Find Themselves Part Of The Same Great Temple; For It Belongs Not To This Earth Alone.