November 21

IN the failure of ourselves, which is an integral part of experience, that which helps us most is that which we feel to be without, and beyond, ourselves. It will not comfort us so much, in our moments of weakness or dying, to be adjured to remember the dignity of our being, as to be pointed to the scene enacted once for all upon the Cross. We believe that Calvary wonderfully includes and conditions ourselves. Yet it is to Calvary, not as ourselves but as Calvary, that, in the breaking-up of ourselves, we most earnestly desire to hold fast. We are left, here at least and now, still gazing as from afar, not in fruition but in faith, on that which we have not realised in ourselves. We are still kneeling to worship, with arms outstretched from ourselves in a wonder of belief and loving adoration, that reality wholly unique and wholly comprehensive, the figure of Jesus crucified.

THE DOOR