March 31

Men dwell upon what He was, and upon what He is; I rather think to-day of what He is to be. And when I see men looking to the future and not to the past—nay, looking to the future and not to the present, valuing the present only as it is the seed-ground of the future, the foundation upon which the structure is to rise whose pinnacle shall some day pierce the sky—I want to tell them of the Jesus that shall be. In fuller comprehen-

sion of Him, with deeper understanding of His life, with a more entire impression of what He is and of what He may be to the soul, so men shall understand Him in the days to be, and yet He shall be the same Christ still. The future belongs to Jesus Christ—yes, the same Christ that I believe in, and that I call upon you to believe in to-day, but a larger, fuller, more completely comprehended Christ—the Christ that is to be, the same Christ that was and suffered.