who hangs thereon. And there he will see, what the wisest and best
among the heathen, among the Mussulmans, among all who are not
Christian men, never have seen, and cannot see unto this day, however
much they may feel (and some of them, thank God, do feel) that God is
the Eternal Goodness, and must be loved accordingly.

And what shall we see upon the cross?

Many things, friends, and more than I, or all the preachers in the
world, will be able to explain to you, though we preached till the
end of the world. But one thing we shall see, if we will, which we
have forgotten sadly, Christians though we be, in these very days;
forgotten it, most of us, so utterly, that in order to bring you back
to it, I must take a seemingly roundabout road.

Does it seem, or does it not seem, to you, that the finest thing in a
man is magnanimity--what we call in plain English, greatness of soul?
And if it does seem to you to be so, what do you mean by greatness of
soul? When you speak of a great soul, and of a great man, what
manner of man do you mean?

Do you mean a very clever man, a very far-sighted man, a very
determined man, a very powerful man, and therefore a very successful
man? A man who can manage everything, and every person whom he comes
across, and turn and use them for his own ends, till he rises to be
great and glorious--a ruler, king, or what you will?

Well--he is a great man: but I know a greater, and nobler, and more
glorious stamp of man; and you do also. Let us try again, and think
if we can find his likeness, and draw it for ourselves. Would he not