THE SALT AND THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

THE RIGHT HAND AND THE LEFT

THE HOPE OF THE UNIVERSE




_SALVATION FROM SIN_.

--and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from
their sins.--_Matthew_ i. 21.


I would help some to understand what Jesus came from the home of our
Father to be to us and do for us. Everything in the world is more or
less misunderstood at first: we have to learn what it is, and come at
length to see that it must be so, that it could not be otherwise. Then
we know it; and we never know a thing _really_ until we know it thus.

I presume there is scarce a human being who, resolved to speak openly,
would not confess to having something that plagued him, something from
which he would gladly be free, something rendering it impossible for
him, at the moment, to regard life as an altogether good thing. Most
men, I presume, imagine that, free of such and such things antagonistic,
life would be an unmingled satisfaction, worthy of being prolonged
indefinitely. The causes of their discomfort are of all kinds, and the
degrees of it reach from simple uneasiness to a misery such as makes
annihilation the highest hope of the sufferer who can persuade himself