The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-31
TIE WAY TO GLORY.

Now Is my soul troubled; and what
snail l say? Father. save Me from
this hour. But for this cause came 1
unto this hour. Father, glorify Thy
name."-John XII. 81, rs.
These words belong to this week,
and they are full OF the humanity OF
Jesus. Here is a man like me. fear
inS death just as fear IT," says the
plain man who reads them, and what
this verse tells us is that He dreaded
to die. We feel instinctively that life
must have been in Him the most com
plete thing possible, and the love of
life, too. must have asserted itself
prc-eminently. and even In tho midst
of all of His suffering and sorrows
the Lord must have chung to lifo and
dreaded death with all the power of
that great unrcasoning instinct which
mas always made the most miserable
of living things fear and suffer in
the presence of death That was
Christs position. Father, save Me
from this hour" He cried out Then,
as if that cry TO His Father lifted Him
UP TO the divinity which He shared
with Him, lie looks back over His
eternal history and rebukes Himself:
but for this cause came l unto this
hour What am doing? What am
saying? Shrinking from death when
was born To die; refusing agony,
when towards this agony all my Joy is
pointed?" He looked back, and lo all
HIS endless life had been busy setting
up this cross Should He shrink from
1t now! And then His whole tone
changes, and lie who had cried,
Father, save Me from this hour" cries
Instead; Father. glorify Thy name"
This is the genuine history OF a gen
uinc struggle. 1t teaches us the gem
eral method Of all duty, or the pro
cess by which a man is led from an
unwillinsncss to Willingness to do or
bear Gods Will. no man comprchends
any work that God has for him to do
TIL the coming task brings Its own
light with it. In the presence Of his
trial. IT is hut natural to shrink and
try by instinct not to see the sword
that God holds down to the human
hand or to seek 10 get around the
burden in the pathway that n man
dares not lift.
These things arc not for me-" he
says. My life is not strung to great
achievement or great patience My
heart is not heroic. 1 am well enough
j for little work. shall fail here.
20 duty. go and find some other soul to
dare thee would. but cannot, o
God. am too weak! Let me go free;
cannot lift Thy burden. Father.
save me from this hour 1t is the
history Of all great action. There
never yet was a reform but the re-
former halted first before his work.
All great duty is great surprise to
the soul that must do it, and blinds
him first OF all with it's bewildcring
light But later he stands in the new
glory with his hands before his eyes
and cries; Father, save me from this
hour" Afterward this light becomes
revelation. and he says: The Lord
WHO brought me here, IL I am to perish,
must have purposes In my pcrishing
too vast for me TO know. I am here
with the pressure OF my preparatory
experience pushing me on. must do
this duty If die; for l sec now that
there are ends higher than my life.
My soul is troubled; and what shall
say? Father save nc from this
hour But for tbs cause came unto
/ TINS hour And then the soul that
DUTY has enlightened looks up to God.
the new strange work. be 1t for life or
death is seized most rcsolutcly. and
INC spul passes inio n new petition:
Father, eiorify Thy name"
Such is the method of all duty. not
only Tor Moses AMI for Luther. but