Christ of the Indian Road…

“—As he came among men he did not try to prove the existence of God — he brought him. He lived in God and men looking upon his face could not find it within themselves to doubt God.

—He did not argue, as Socrates, the immortality of the soul — he raised the dead.

—He did not argue that God answers prayer — he prayed, sometimes all night, and in the morning “the power of the Lord was present to heal.”

—He did not argue the worth of womanhood and the necessity for giving them equal rights; he treated them with infinite respect, gave to them his most sublime teaching, and when he arose from the dead he appeared first to a woman.

—He did not teach in the schoolroom manner the necessity of humility; he “girded himself with a towel and kneeled down and washed his disciples’ feet.”

—He did not paint a Utopia, far off and unrealizable—he announced that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

—He did not discourse on the beauty of love — he loved.

—He greatly felt the pressing necessity of the physical needs of the people around him, but he did not merely speak on their behalf—he fed five thousand people with five loaves and two fishes.

—Many teachers of the world have tried to explain everything—they changed little or nothing. Jesus explained little and changed everything.

—He did not go into long discussions about the Way to God and the possibility of finding him — he quietly said to men, “I am the Way.”

—Many speculate with Pilate and ask, “What is truth?” Jesus shows himself and says, “I am the Truth.”

—Jesus defines life itself, by presenting himself and saying, “I am the Life.” Anyone who truly looks upon him knows in the inmost depths of his soul that he is looking on Life itself.”