Article January 29, 1916 Issue

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with contributions from Philip S. Moxom

[Philip S. Moxom as quoted in The Christian Register]

The words ascribed to Jesus, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me," are true for every sincere soul, and the companionship of God makes every hard experience tolerable. In the divine order there is compensation at last. Slowly even his church apprehends the real spirit of Jesus and feebly prosecutes his real mission. Sometimes it seems as if the centuries were but one prolonged passion week, and Jesus still prays in Gethsemane or toils up new Calvaries "with the cross that turns not back," and those who in name are nearest to him sleep while he sorrows, or flee in dismay at sight of the cross.

To be a Christian is heroic but not easy. It is to be steadily in sympathy with Jesus, not only in his sufferings but also in his aims and enterprise. It is to face with courageous and frank acceptance the discipline through which he passed and through which we must pass in order to understand him and become like him, and not shrink back from it in petulance or resentment. It is to walk with him by day and night, in silent hours of meditation and strenuous hours of labor. It is to confess his name by manifesting his spirit. It is sincerely and without ostentation trying to shape our lives in accordance with his teaching. To be a Christian is to be in sympathy with Jesus, and to the best of our knowledge in this confusing world and time to be in sympathy with him is to be in sympathy with God.

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