Not dying on a cross is a matter of technique. One sees how not to, and one does not. It might be said that the world has two kinds of redeemers, its cross-redeemers and its success-redeemers. The very best are on crosses, many of them. Perhaps in the development of the truth the cross-redeemers come first; they are the pioneers. Then come the success-redeemers, then everybody! CHAPTER XIV IS IT SECOND RATE FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO BE SUCCESSFUL? Of course the most stupendous success that has ever been made--the world's most successful undertaking from a technical point of view as an adaptation of means to ends was the attempt that was made by a man in Galilee years and years ago to get not only the attention of a whole world, but to get the attention of a whole world for two thousand years. This purpose of arresting the attention of a world and of holding it for two thousand years was accomplished by the use of success and of failure alternately. Christ tried success or failure according to which method (time and place considered) would seem to work best. His first success was with the doctors. His next success was based on His instinct for psychology, His power of divining people's minds, which made possible to Him those extraordinary feats in the way of telling short stories that would arrest and hold the attention of crowds so that they would think and live with them for weeks to come. His next success was a success based on the power of His personality, and His knowledge of the human spirit and his victory over His own spirit--his success in curing people's diseases and His extraordinary roll of miracles. He finally tried failure at the end, or what looked like failure, because the Cross completed what he had had to say. It made His success seem greater. The world had put to death the man who had had such great successes. People thought of His successes when they thought of Him on the Cross, and they have kept thinking of them for thousands of years. But the Cross itself, or the use of failure was a sowing of the seed, a taking the truth out of the light and the sunshine and putting it in the dark ground. The Cross was promptly contradicted with the Resurrection. All this, it seems to some of us, is the most stupendous and successful undertaking from a purely technical point of view that the world has seen. In the last analysis it was not His ideas or His character merely, but it was His technique that made Christ the Son of God and the Master of the Nations of the Earth. * * * * * I think that while Christ would not have understood Frederick Taylor's technique, his tables of figures or foot-tons or logarithms he would have understood Frederick Taylor.