July 15

Jesus saith unto him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.—John 14:6.

DO I intelligently and sincerely take Christ as my Way—the only way to pardon, to holiness, to duty, to heaven? Do I receive him as the Truth, as opposed to all falsehood and error; and his doctrine as the only true doctrine, desiring no other truth than the truth as it is in Jesus? And do I take him as the Life; the life of my soul; its beginning, middle and end? Am I so one with him, that for me to live is Christ?

Beside Christ there is no way but wandering; no truth, but error and hypocrisy; no life, but spiritual and eternal death.—LUTHER.

Little as I know of Christ (and it is my sin and shame that I know so little) I would not exchange the learning of one hour's fellowship with him for all the learning of ten thousand universities during ten thousand ages, even though angels were to be my teachers.—JOHN BROWN.

O Lord, be thou to me "the Way;"

To me be thou "the Truth;"

To me, my Saviour, be "the Life,"

To age from earliest youth!

So shall that Way be my delight,

That Truth shall make me free,

That Life shall raise me from the dead,

That I may live to thee!

—LEON RICHMOND.