10689.13367 by Unknown

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the bench of the carpenter, whereas He was opening our eyes to the dawn of a new day. His mother and His brothers would have had Him live in the shadow of death, but He Himself was challenging death upon yonder hill that He might live in our sleepless memory. I know these moles that dig paths to nowhere. Are they not the ones who accuse Jesus of glorifying Himself in that He said to the multitude: “I am the path and the gate to salvation,” and even called Himself the life and the resurrection? But Jesus was not claiming more than the month of May claims in her high tide. Was He not to tell the shining truth because it was so shining ? He indeed said that He was the way and the life and the resurrection of the heart; and I myself am a testimony to His truth. Do you remember me, Nicodemus, who believed in naught but the laws and decrees and was in continual subjection to observances? And behold me now, a man who walks with life and laughs with the sun from the first moment it smiles upon the mountain until it yields itself to bed behind the hills. Why do you halt before the word salvation ? I myself through Him have attained my salvation. I care not for what shall befall me tomorrow, for I know that Jesus quickened my sleep and made my distant dreams my companions and my road-fellows. Am I less man because I believe in a greater man? 106

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