face of Jesus, to grasp His hand of love, to listen to His marvellous words, and to see the smile of His heavenly joy. He witnessed the constant revelation of His divinity in His humanity. He received that unadulterated love, and heard that holiest prayer, and knew that sublimest purpose. This was the man who had dined with Christ, and rested with Him, and walked with Him. He saw Him touch the lame man's foot, the palsied man's hand, the blind man's eye, and the deaf man's ear. He had even been at the side of the dead man when Jesus spoke the words of life. The statement is almost too bold for belief that he is the same man who walked into the presence of the enemies of his best Friend, and the world's noblest character, and said, with a miser's spirit and a coward's attitude, "What will ye give me?" Money was the most sacred thing in the world. He had forgotten heaven, and was only familiar with the vocabulary of the market, "How much?" That was the most important part of life. At that altar he had worshipped so long and so reverently that even the Son of God had to take a second place when the critical testing hour came. If that is all there is to life, then the rope is a good thing for Judas to

carry in one hand while he holds his money in the other. The Son of God was always right, and from the heights of His own vision and sacrifice, He made no mistake when He turned toward the betrayer and said, "Better for that man had he never been born." It is better not to have lived than to live a mean, low, selfish life. Dust, earth, and ashes may be the composition of existence, but not of life. They have meaning in the last ceremony when they fall on the casket of a Judas.

"Life is real, life is earnest,

And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul."

Here is another man who had not known the riches of personal association with the world's Saviour. He had in the irreligiousness of his religion held the coat as Stephen manifested the same spirit as his divine Master while the Jews were killing Him. Now he is on the way to mingle more Christian blood with the dust of earth. Heaven interferes. That one look at Jesus was enough. From that hour he says he began to live. He reached the summit of human life when he said, "For me to live is Christ." He declared that all the past, up

to that hour on the Damascus road, was not a part of his life. He first began to live when he began to say, "For me to live is Christ." He braved every danger and persecution, and even death itself, in the strength of that mighty impulse. He lost his old self and all its fear and desire for riches, or position, or ease. That miraculous and mysterious transformation was a definite experience and an unquestioned reality. Christ had suddenly come into his life as its author, its preserver, its sanctifier, and its eternity. Everything was changed, even his name. The Christ of Bethlehem and Nazareth and Gethsemane and Calvary was all in all. The difference between Judas and Paul is the difference between "How much?" and "To live is Christ." The one sold Christ, and the other lived Him. The one died the death of a traitor and twisted his own rope; the other died the death of a martyr, and angels twined laurels for his kingly brow. The difference between the two lives is the difference between every great and small life, between every man who has visions from a mountaintop and every man in a valley. This is not mere history; it is present-day reality. We are not far removed from this startling contrast in human life.

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The principles remain even if the words on the page change. Names in the sentence may change from Judas to James, but the elemental laws of the world never change. There will always be the same wide chasm between " Making a living" and Making a life." Making a living is the small, time-serving, dwarfed and paralyzed man's object. Making a life is the kingly, immortal, characterworshipping man's object. The one lives in the narrow, prison-limited circle of self, and the other in a world which is bounded only when infinity and eternity have limits. There is no circumference to the life lived outside of self. Mere making a living only touches the crust of existence and makes the most successful man cry out, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." Making a life is the primary and the essential. Better for Judas had he never been born, than to buy bread with his thirty pieces of silver. Making a living depends upon temporal circumstances. Making a life rests upon eternal principles. Making a life does not depend upon riches, or fame, or health, or anything except a holy principle and an undying purpose. Every man comes within the sweep of this radiant possibility.

power to attain it. There is a spiritual hunger which makes every mortal gravitate toward him. Before the needle of the compass is magnetized it lies in any position, but when thrilled and electrified by the magnetic force, it points forever in the one direction. So the low and aimless life, when touched by the spirit of Christ, invariably and eternally points in the one direction. To be like Christ is the great circle which sweeps every other ideal and ambition within its circumference. As Shakespeare reveals an ideal for the young poet, and Raphael unveils the future for the young artist, so Jesus Christ stands out unique and alone as the ideal for human character.

David Livingston first saw Christ and longed to be like Him before he was crucified in the darkness of Africa. In obedience to his holy vision he literally placed a cross upon the dark continent. He journeyed north into the depths of heathenism; he then came back part of the distance and fell upon his knees to pray for Africa; he then went directly east to the coast and came back to fall again upon his knees in the same place and pray for Africa; he then forced his way directly westward to the coast and again returned to the same centre to fall upon