And whilst, therefore, the great message, 'It is Christ that died,'
is ever to be pondered, we have also to think with sympathy and
gratitude on the homelier representation coming nearer to our hearts,
which proclaims that 'Jesus died.' Let us not forget the Brother's
manhood that had to agonise and to suffer and to die as the price of
our salvation.

Again, when the Scripture would set our Lord before us, as in His
humanity, our pattern and example, it sometimes uses this name, in
order to give emphasis to the thought of His Manhood--as, for
example, in the words of the Epistle to the Hebrews, 'looking unto
Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of faith.' That is to say--a mighty
stimulus to all brave perseverance in our efforts after higher
Christian nobleness lies in the vivid and constant realisation of the
true manhood of our Lord, as the type of all goodness, as having
Himself lived by faith, and that in a perfect degree and manner. We
are to turn away our eyes from contemplating all other lives and
motives, and to 'look off' from them to Him. In all our struggles let
us think of Him. Do not take poor human creatures for your ideal of
excellence, nor tune your harps to their keynotes. To imitate men is
degradation, and is sure to lead to deformity. None of them, is a
safe guide. Black veins are in the purest marble, and flaws in the
most lustrous diamonds. But to imitate Jesus is freedom, and to be
like Him is perfection. Our code of morals is His life. He is the
Ideal incarnate. The secret of all progress is, 'Run--looking unto
Jesus.'

Then, again, we have His manhood emphasised when His sympathy is to
be commended to our hearts. 'The great High Priest, who is passed
into the heavens' is '_Jesus_' ... 'who was in all points tempted