. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . That is Hisgrandest title. He is the sovereign-ser-vant of the race He has created. Menscoffed at Jesus in the days of His flesh,nad some continue to scoff at Him to-daybecause of His humility. It was largelyon this account that He was rejected byHis own nation, and yet herein was Hisunapproachable greatness. What can bemore kingly than virtue? What can com-mand more regally than ministering love?Can greatness add anything to goodness?Why, it is a greater thing to be a servantand lift men up than to be an emperorand place your foot upon their su
. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . That is Hisgrandest title. He is the sovereign-ser-vant of the race He has created. Menscoffed at Jesus in the days of His flesh,nad some continue to scoff at Him to-daybecause of His humility. It was largelyon this account that He was rejected byHis own nation, and yet herein was Hisunapproachable greatness. What can bemore kingly than virtue? What can com-mand more regally than ministering love?Can greatness add anything to goodness?Why, it is a greater thing to be a servantand lift men up than to be an emperorand place your foot upon their subjugatednecks. It was a greater thing for Jesusthe God-man, the king-servant, to havecome in misunderstood humility, to havesuffered ignominy, persecution and death,and by that self-sacrifice to have lifted upfallen humanity to its promised purity,than to have ridden down the sky in chariotof whirlwind, unhorsed Satan and estab-lished His kingdom forever. So Chris-tianity, following the spirit and exampleof its founder, has always been the one. W. H. (1. TEMPLE, OF OHIO. great masterful force in human life forgood, and yet at the time of its greatesttriumph, it has generally assumed the low-est place. It is the sword of the spiritin the hands of the Christian that is toconquer the world ! I place my patriot then on some emi-nence and let him scan the generationspast in the history of his country. I wanthim to follow step by step its advance incivilization. I want him to see first as athin, translucent cloud across its horizonthe hint of its coming humiliation, andtrace its angry and portentous growthuntil it bursts in fiery wrath over a dis-rupted nation, so that we may recognizethe divine hand shaping, scourging andthen re-shaping the nation of His loveinto comely and symmetrical life. Canyou doubt the result of such a course?Must not the patriot become a religion-ist and the religionist a patriot? Has not God always favored this na-tion? It is to my mind the grandestthou
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