crushing the power of evil by divine force; instead of compelling
justice and destroying the wicked; instead of making peace on the earth
by the rule of a perfect prince; instead of gathering the children of
Jerusalem under his wings whether they would or not, and saving them
from the horrors that anguished his prophetic soul--he let evil work its
will while it lived; he contented himself with the slow unencouraging
ways of help essential; making men good; casting out, not merely
controlling Satan; carrying to their perfect issue on earth the old
primeval principles because of which the Father honoured him: 'Thou hast
loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God,
hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.' To love
righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it; and to win for
righteousness the true victory, he, as well as his brethren, had to send
away evil. Throughout his life on earth, he resisted every impulse to
work more rapidly for a lower good,--strong perhaps when he saw old age
and innocence and righteousness trodden under foot. What but this gives
any worth of reality to the temptation in the wilderness, to the
devil's departing from him for a season, to his coming again to
experience a like failure? Ever and ever, in the whole attitude of his
being, in his heart always lifted up, in his unfailing readiness to pull
with the Father's yoke, he was repelling, driving away sin--away from
himself, and, as Lord of men, and their saviour, away from others also,
bringing them to abjure it like himself. No man, least of all any lord
of men, can be good without willing to be good, without setting himself
against evil, without sending away sin. Other men have to send it away
out of them; the Lord had to send it away from before him, that it
should not enter into him. Therefore is the stand against sin common to
the captain of salvation and the soldiers under him.

What did Jesus come into the world to do? The will of God in saving his