e remade in Christ I despair of nothing.
It all turns on the remake. And it can be remade: "As many as received
Him, to them gave He power to become sons of God: who were born not of
blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of
God."

Let us, therefore, by divine grace, refashion our lives on the mighty
principle of divine love. And let us settle it as one of the truths
never to be questioned, that nothing is worthy to be called love that
cannot be affirmed of God. We know what God loves; or we know enough
for the practical ordering of our daily life. Let us love in ourselves
what God loves in us. This will include for ourselves and others all
things which are good for us to have and enjoy; and because it will
exclude all things that are narrow, mean, and selfish, it will go far
to raise the world to a power of a new day. Then, through hearts and
homes, through Churches and societies, the Royal Law, made royal life,
will solve the problem of the new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.
It will become the touch of omnipotence that casts out of our life the
unworthy, by bringing in the opposite virtues, resolving all into
character which shall transform mankind into one realm over which the
right and the might of Christ shall at last prevail--

"From creed and scheme the light goes out,
The saintly fact survives,
The Blessed Master who can doubt,
Revealed in human lives?"

[1] Two or three sentences in this chapter are memorized from a sermon
I heard years ago, preached by Rev. H. E. Michie, M.A., of Stonehaven.

'HE WAS DESPISED AND REJECTED'

"He is despised and rejected of men."--Isaiah liii. 3.

VIII

'HE WAS DESPISED AND REJECTED'

Some two or three years ago the picture, "He was despised and
rejected," by Sigismund Goeetze, was on view in Glasgow. In this
address I shall try to tell you something about the impression it made
on me; and the reason will be given at the end why I include it in this
series. Some of you may have seen the picture; others may have read or
heard about it.

The conception of it appears to have formed itself in the mind of the
artist out of what ordinarily is a very commonplace circumstance. He
had attended a Sunday service at St. Paul's Cathedral, and heard a
sermon that made a deep impression upon him; which found his higher
being with something like the touch of an immortal influence. He
thought within himself: "What a