It was greatest in its intensity of meaning _to Satan_, the hater of God and man. It told his utter defeat, and loss of power over man. So it broke our bonds and made us free to yield to the wooing. And it was greatest in its intensity of meaning _to us men_. For it showed to our confused eyes the one ideal of right standing out clear and full. It set us free from the fetters of our bondage, gave us the tremendous incentive of love to reach up to the ideal of right, and more, immensely more, gave us _power to reach it_. It was the greatest wooing _in the out-reach_ of its influence, for all men of all the earth would be touched.[129] And it was greatest _in the in-reach_ to all the life of each one who came under its blessed influence. The whole ministry taught this. It would mean newness of life in body, in mind, in social nature, in spirit, and in the eternal quality of life lived here, and to be lived without any ending. And all the world has responded to this greatest wooing as they have come to know of it. That three-languaged inscription on the cross was a world appeal and a world prophecy. In Hebrew the religious language of the world whose literature told of the one true God, in Latin the language of the masters of the world, in Greek the language of the culture of the world, that message went out to all the world. This Jesus is our Kinsman-King, our Brother-Ruler, our Love-Autocrat. He revealed His love for us in His death for us. And men answer to Jesus' great plea. With flooded eyes and broken hearts, and bending wills, and changed lives, men of all the race bow gratefully at the feet of Jesus, our Saviour and Lord and coming King. VI An Appointed Tryst Unexpectedly Kept _A Day of Startling Joyous Surprises_ "Halts by me that footfall: Is my gloom, after all, Shade of His hand outstretched caressingly? 'Ah, fondest, blindest, weakest, I am He whom thou seekest! _Thou drawest love from thee, who drawest Me._'" --"_The Hound of Heaven._ "After I am raised up I will go before you into Galilee."--_Mark xiv. 28._ VI An Appointed Tryst Unexpectedly Kept (John xx.) The Appointment. Jesus had made an appointment. It was with these dear friends who had responded so lovingly to His wooing. It was a significant appointment, most significant. He had appointed to meet them three days after His death. He had made a further appointment to meet them in Galilee. What a stupendous appointment to make! It was a sacred appointment, sacred as the love that made it, sacred to Jesus as the friendship of these men with whom it was made, sacred as His word that never was broken. Our Scottish friends use a most significant word for appointment, the word _tryst_. They used to use it some for ordinary appointments, but chiefly it is used for friendship and for love-appointments. The appointment is a tryst.