summit, they may be able to touch the heavens with their hand or take possession of the sun. But the pathway heavenward lies not on earthly slopes, however fair; no, not even up glorious Thabor does it lead, but up Calvary alone, for as it was necessary for Christ to suffer and so enter into His glory, so His every faithful follower must deny himself and take up his cross and follow the Saviour through many tribulations into the kingdom of heaven.
Brethren, we have twice heard Christ's divinity proclaimed by God the Father Himself; we have heard it from the angels by His empty tomb; we have read it in almost every chapter of the Scriptures, Old and New; Nature has confessed it by her wondrous obedience; Christ has proven it by His prophecies and miracles; the blood of the martyrs loudly asserts it; the marvellous spread of the Christian religion does and will bear testimony to it for all time. But these arguments are for the unbelieving. For ourselves, we have within us an indefinable sense of security, whereby, without inquiring into the why or the wherefore, we believe in Our Lord with a faith that nothing can shatter. Blessed are they that have not seen and have believed. Our faith is our joy and our crown. Let it also instil into our lives a measure of salutary fear. When the Lord was made flesh and dwelt amongst us, He came as the lowliest of the low. Let us not forget He is to come again with power and majesty to render to every man according to his deserts, when the wicked shall go into everlasting fire but the just into life everlasting.
