the world He is the Master of the World. His humanity is raised to
the throne because His humanity stooped to the cross. As long as
men's hearts can be touched by absolute unselfish surrender, and as
long as they can know the blessedness of responsive surrender, so
long will He who gave Himself for the world be the Sovereign of the
world, and the First-born from the dead be the Prince of all the
kings of the earth.

And so, dear friends, our thoughts to-day all point to this lesson--
do not you content yourselves with a maimed Christ. Do not tarry in
the Manhood; do not think it enough to cherish reverence for the
nobility of His soul, the gentle wisdom of His words, the beauty of
His character, the tenderness of His compassion. All these will be
insufficient for your needs. There is more in His mission than these
--even His death for you and for all men. Take Him for your Christ,
but do not lose the Person in the Work, any more than you lose the
work in the Person. And be not content with an intellectual
recognition of Him, but bring Him the faith which cleaves to Him and
His work as its only hope and peace, and the love which, because of
His work as Christ, flows out to the beloved Person who has done it
all. Thus loving Jesus and trusting Christ, you will bring obedience
to your Lord and homage to your King, and learn the sweetness and
power of 'the name that is above every name'--the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ.

May we all be able, with clear and unfaltering conviction of our
understandings and loving affiance of our whole souls, to repeat as
our own the grand words in which so many centuries have proclaimed
their faith--words which shed a spell of peacefulness over stormy
lives, and fling a great light of hope into the black jaws of the