shipwreck of their faith, or be turned sadly awry. They must not only seek, but strive to enter the narrow path of Life; for “broad is the road that leads to death, and many go in thereat.”
Jesus experienced few of the pleasures of personal sense; but his sufferings were the fruits of other people's sins, not of his own. The eternal Christ never suffered. Jesus mapped out the path for others. He unveiled the Divine Love. To those buried in the belief of sin and self, living only for pleasure, or the gratification of the senses, he said, “Having eyes ye see not, and having ears ye hear not, lest ye should understand and be converted, and I might heal you.” Sensualism shuts out Truth and its healing power.
Jesus was unselfish. His spirituality, separating him from sensualism, caused the selfish materialist to hate him; but this spirituality enabled Jesus to heal the sick, cast out evil, and raise the dead. His affections were pure, theirs were carnal. His senses drank in the spiritual evidence of health, holiness, and Life; their senses absorbed the material evidence of sin, sickness, and death.
Their imperfections and impurity felt his perfections and purity as an ever-present rebuke. Hence the world's hatred of the just and perfect Jesus, and the prophetic foresight of the reception error must give him. “Despised and rejected of men,” was Isaiah's graphic word concerning the coming Prince of Peace.
The world could not interpret aright the discomfort he inspired, and the spiritual blessings that might flow therefrom. Science shows the cause of the shock often produced by Truth — namely, that it arises from the
