NOT DEAD.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 101, 9 April 1907, Page 6

NOT DEAD.

(By the Rev. J. D. Jones, M.A., 8.D.)

I remember reading how, m the battle (I believe) of Prestonpans, a Highland chief who was leading his clan to the charge fell wounded. And the sight of their falling chief scattered dismay through the ranks of the clan and checked them m their onset, and the word was passed from lip to lip that their chief was dead. The old chief heard it, and raising himself up on his elbows cried : • " No, my children, your chief is not dead. He is watching you to see how you will uphold the honor of the clan." And the story tells how v those clansmen fought like lions, conscious that they were fighting under their chief's eye. Jesus, too, is alive — alive for evermore. It is slow work, ter rible work, heart-breaking work to toil alone. But to know the Master's eye is upon vs — that makes all the difference. And it is more than a case of Christ's eye being upon us. He is with us m the work, with us m the fight. He is m us. " Apart from Me," He said, "ye can do nothing." But with Him there is nothing we cannot do. What is there we want more m our Christian service than this sense of close, living union with Christ, which made Paul what he was, which made the Apostles what they were? To be strong for labor and successful m it we must, like them, know the power of Christ's Resurrection.