We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.
Even yet Christ Jesus has to lie out in waste places very often, because there is no room for him in the inn--no room for him in our hearts, because of our worldliness. There is no room for him even in our politics and religion. There is no room in the inn, and we put him in the manger, and he lies outside our faith, coldly and dimly conceived by us.
No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.
Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.
Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
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