At one time the writer had, for two weeks, his tent home on the summit of the Mount of Olives, with all its hallowed associations, and with its impressive outlook on Jerusalem and its surroundings. The time was just before Easter, when pilgrims were coming from far and near in their annual visit to the holy city, now as of old. To many of these pilgrims the sacred sites were unfamiliar, as it was their first visit there; and, in consequence, they were full of questions as they walked, and as they rested. As the writer stood, one day, at the entrance of his tent, a party of Syrian Christian pilgrims, from the north, approached him, and one of these asked, earnestly, “Can you tell me where are the footprints of Jesus?” What a question for that place, or for any other place! “Can you tell me where are the footprints of Jesus?” The question took hold of the heart of him of whom it was asked, and that hold it has never lost. On, or near, the summit of the Mount of Olives, there is an indentation in the limestone rock which is popularly, or ecclesiastically, said to mark the footsteps of Jesus, when He ascended after His resurrection, and it was that point that the Syrian pilgrim was asking to have pointed out. But his question went further than his meaning or thought. Whoever stands on any eminence in life’s pathway will have pilgrims along that pathway asking him, in spirit, if not in word, “Can you tell me where are the footprints of Jesus?” And every believer who would do his duty, or who would help others to know and to do theirs, must be able and ready to point out the footprints of Jesus, and to say to the inquiring pilgrims, “This is the way, walk ye in it.” Are you always ready to answer confidently the question, “Where are the footprints of Jesus?” The footsteps of Jesus are to be found, and are to be the guide of those who find them. Of this we are assured of God. The first and chiefest apostle says, as to this, to all the believers: “For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow His steps.” And if we are to follow His steps, we must know where His steps are. We are not to find the steps, or “the footprints,” of Jesus on the limestone cliffs of Olivet, which He clambered while here in the flesh. Nor are we to feel that we are in the steps which we are to follow when we tread the path to and from Jacob’s well, or up and down the hill overlooking Nazareth, where the boy Jesus must have looked out upon the many sites made sacred by the Old Testament record. This is not the way to find, or to follow, the footsteps of Jesus. It is in no such material path, but in the example and spirit of Jesus, that He is to be imitated and followed by those who would be His true disciples. He said: “My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to accomplish His work.” If that was good enough meat for Jesus, it ought to be good enough meat for His disciples. Is it our meat, or every-day food? Again He said: “I seek not mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me.” If we feel that way about God’s will, we are walking, so far, in the steps of Jesus. And again: “I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me.” Could we have a plainer pattern of the spirit and life of Him whom we are to be like? In order to walk in the footprints of Jesus, we must have a care as to where our feet go. That is even more important than finding out just where the feet of Jesus went, whether on the Mount of Olives, or at Nazareth, or Bethany.