April 24

Oh, my friends, what does it mean to know that, from the day the first man, in his pure rudimen-

tary innocence, trod upon this earth until to-day, when the sons of men go staggering under the burden of these thousands of years of experience, when men grow dark with the problems and bright with the joys of life,—to know that, save for Him who stands upon the hill-top of our humanity, glorifying and perfecting our humanity with His divine life, there never yet has been, in perfectness, the thing that we call man upon the earth?