The Influence of Christ’s Life
His life is becoming to us a new life, as if we had never seen a word of it. There is round about us an influence so strange, so penetrating, so subtle, yet so mighty, that we are obliged to ask the great heaving world of time to be silent for a while that we may see just what and where we are. That influence of the life of Jesus Christ, we cannot get clear of it; we hear it in the tones of joy, we feel it stealing across the darkness of sorrow; we see it where we least expect it. Even men who have traveled farthest from it seem only to have come round to it again; and while they have been undervaluing the inner worth of Jesus Christ, they have actually been living on the virtue which came out of His garments here.—Joseph Parker.