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Wherever we see parents laying out and carrying into execution schemes for the betterment of the condition of their offspring, we should have to face the same ugly situation. The very Son of God, in the popular sense of the expression, would be open to the same blame. Even the Supreme Father who laid designs for the sacrifice of his only begotten Son in our behalf, and who “concealed certain truths from the wise, but revealed them to the babes," in such a fashion that none of them, at least during the lifetime of Jesus, could understand them, would not escape condemnation for designing. It is pure prejudice which can possibly take such a view of the great sacrifice which the noble soul of Jesus undertook to make in our cause. To risk one's life purely for the sake of others, so that they might be saved, is one of those heroic deeds with which history is ever proud to ornament its pages. He had discovered the secret of human woe, and its remedy was so astounding that the wisest of the age, although beaten in argument, merely shook their unconvinced heads at it, leaving him to prove its truth, if he so chose, by a practical demonstration on his own person. But, be it said to his everlasting glory, that he did not, for a moment, shrink from the task set to him to accomplish. How can one doubt his claim, “I am the way, the truth, and the life?" He was the truth,' because he set it before men; he was the 'way,' because he undertook to guide them along the most difficult portion of it; and he was the 'life,' because he rose from the dead, and demonstrated
* Here 'he' refers to the Speaker, not to the body which was inhabited by the Speaker on the occasion.
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