HUMAN nature combines with history to demand that power must be in natural opposition to humility and servitude …

WE may be sure that the ears of Jesus were never closed to human need, but poverty cannot be eliminated in the days when mortals earn their bread by “sweat of face” …

WE turn to Christ in our moments of suffering and trial …

THE true shepherd is always an example of courage and faithfulness in the discharge of his duty …

ON at least one occasion Jesus led his hearers’ thoughts from ordinary to spiritual food …

“Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already unto harvest …”

“In the wilderness prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God … and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed” …

Jesus bore the cross for himself, that others might partake of the exaltation which is his because of obedience unto death.

“Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world”.

In the midst of difficulty, when doubt and despair stalk hand in hand, the man of faith can still hear the words of Jesus, and believing find heart’s ease.