_Things divine are not defended by dodging._

_It is the heart that gives ease to any work._

_The door of truth never opens to the key of prejudice._

_Love never knows how much it gives nor what it costs._


VI

THE SUFFICIENT SIGN

The scribe and the Pharisee are still with us. "Establish the
credibility of the miracles of Jesus, or, better still, let Him work a
miracle to-day, and we will believe," they say. This age is credulous;
it hungers to believe the extraordinary. Yet, while it is running
after folly, it is blind to the most extraordinary fact, the most
stupendous miracle that ever took place, although it goes on right
before its eyes and is open to every kind of proof. It cannot see the
miracle of Jesus in the world to-day, the miracle beside which all the
works He did in His lifetime sink into insignificance.

Here is the sign to-day offered to the skeptic: Once, nearly twenty
centuries ago, a young preacher travelled and taught through the
villages and by the wayside in an obscure oriental country. He
addressed a subject race, insular in their prejudices, lacking in
political genius and in artistic culture. He lived in days calculated
to chill the most fervid religious enthusiasm. He was at first ignored
and then hated by His own people; the religious leaders became His