man called out cheerily, "Good-morning, Auntie—living here all alone?" "Jes me n' Jesus, Massa," she replied with a bright smile. The missionary dismounted and went in for a little visit with her—and he said as he was riding away, and looked back for a last glimpse of the happy old saint, "It seemed as if he could see the form of one like unto the Son of God" standing by her side in the doorway of the poor little cabin.
(1686)
Jesus as Guide—See Guide, The Perfect.
Jesus, Canceler of Sin—See Christ Destroyer
of Sin.
Jesus Crowned with Thorns—See
Christ's Face.
JESUS, GREATNESS OF
Recently a flower was exhibited that was grown in a cellar by acetylene gas. But let no man be anxious. The summer's sun is not seriously threatened by acetylene! The scientist knows that there is a large amount of condensed sunshine stored away in the acetylene that was released. There are a few soldiers of supreme genius that divide honors. There are a few poets of the first order of greatness. There are a few statesmen of equal rank. But Jesus is alone, one star, shining down upon the little hills.—N. D. Hillis.
(1687)
Dinocrates, a Macedonian architect, once proposed to carve Mount Athos into a statue of Alexander—the left hand to hold a city of 10,000 population, and the right hand to be a basin to receive the perpetual flow of the mountain and give it to the sea below. Jesus, a mightier architect, is carving all humanity into a kingdom that, like a stone cut out of the mountain without hands, shall fill the whole earth.
(1688)
JESUS, SECOND COMING OF
In Venice stands a very beautiful monument,
a pyramid of marble, in which lie the
mortal remains of a little child. By the door
stands a sculptured angel resting one hand
on the door-latch, and holding in the other
hand a trumpet, and himself peering intently
into the distant heaven; while carved upon
the door is the inscription: "Till He Comes."
Such a monument is the institution
of the Lord's Supper. Such an expectancy
is appropriate to the soul.
Such a lesson of patient waiting is not
amiss. Such a readiness to respond to
the last call were becoming even to the
busy. (Text.)
(1689)
JESUS, SUPREMACY OF
On Chinese Gordon's monument in St.
Paul's Cathedral, proud England has inscribed
this epitaph, "Who at all times and
everywhere gave his strength to the weak,
his substance to the poor, his sympathy to
the suffering, and his heart to God." Well
may old England gather young England
about the monument of her dead hero who
gave Jesus Christ supremacy over both life
and relations. Henry George and Cardinal
Manning were talking together. "I love men
because Jesus loved them," said the Cardinal.
"And I love Jesus because he loved men,"
was Mr. George's quick reply. It does not
matter which way you go to it, only that you
do actually go to the real love of men. This
kind of Christianity is not outgrown; this
kind has not yet been tried.—Wm. F. McDowell,
"Student Volunteer Movement,"
1906.
(1690)
"Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness"—See Christ's Face.
Jesus Would Have Done, Just as—See
Generosity, Christian.
Jewel, The Sympathetic—See Sympathy.
Journalism—See Classics, Study of.
Journey of Life—See Soul Queries.
JOURNEY TO HEAVEN
Our highest aspiration must wait. We
are here to get through the world. Life is
a road where we camp for a night on a
journey to the golden gate and the setting
sun; a traveler who sets up his tent at dark
does not plant corn or put out a grape-vine,
if when the morning comes he expects to
pull his tent down and march on. Men are
born upon the shore of one ocean; by traveling
lightly and never losing a moment, and
marching bravely on, through forest, over
desert, mountain and river, the traveler can
reach the other ocean in time to catch the
little boat that slips out into the dark, and
sails out of sight with God alone. But the
traveler must not expect to plant harvests
and grow vineyards while out upon his
march. Yonder lie the happy hills of God.
There no winter falls, there the summer
sheds its warmth always upon the violet
