There is no attempt to minimize the suffering which lies inside the Law in the case of a world which has defied it. Jesus, the Saviour, knew strong crying and tears during those dark days of the sowing of the seed. But already He saw of the travail of His soul and was satisfied. The Father’s Name--that is the newly-revealed Name, Father--is glorified. The defeat of the arch-enemy is assured. The life-giving power of the Cross is realized, for all the world and for all time, as in a vision of glory. These were the thoughts which upheld the Saviour of the world, as He, resolutely refusing all relief, faced the days which lay before Him. Thus, the grain of wheat, falling into the ground and dying, has already borne a great Harvest. (See St. John xii. 24-36.) “_The great lesson of love is to die unto oneself. Christ’s love is always shown through death, just because the death of self is both the greatest expression of, and the only way to love. The two things go together inseparably; in fact, they are opposite faces of the same thing. And that dying is eternal life._” “_The pages blotted with tears are not always the darkest to look back upon. One page in the world’s history, stained with the bitterest tears ever shed upon earth, and steeped in guiltless blood, is not the darkest to read. It is in the light of that sorrow, and that sin, thou must learn to understand all the rest. All these hard and bitter questions are answered there to the holy heart: nowhere else, and to none else._” IV ♦The Law is Universal, austere, but immeasurably glorious♦ Jesus maintained that the Law of the Harvest--the Law of Death unto Life--is universal. It holds as truly of every man and woman who would be in line with the Purpose of God as it did of the Christ. Devotion to Self kills the true Self; for the true centre of Man is not Self, but the Father. Hence the often-repeated demand of Jesus that His servants should follow Him in His life and death. Such surrender of the Self as His must, in their measure, be theirs. It is the only true human living, the living day by day in harmony with the fundamental Law. The demand seems, until it is in some measure experienced, far too high, too austere, for the common human life. Many shrink back from it in fear. But those who know something of the forth-going life which takes the place of the old self-centred life know that it is immeasurably fuller, richer, nobler than the old; for they make the great discovery that the true glory of the child is that he should be in sympathy with the Father, in the joy of the harvest of a loving heart. V