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Edited by Heyman Wreford
THE frowning Alpine height was scaled by the tourist and his I trusty guide. Then as the far more formidable descent was faced, the latter perceived a look of dismay on his companion’s countenance. And instantly he wound around him the rope he carried, and firmly secured it to his own body, saying as he did so, “Both safe, or neither.”
A striking illustration of the union wherein every true follower of Christ is “bound in the bundle of life” to his divine Leader; for His assurance to His people “because I live, ye shall live also,” is not only a priceless promise but an unchanging fact, in virtue of which the apostle declares while still amid the toils and sufferings of his earthly ways, “I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me,” and “death hath no more dominion over him.”
Very far short does our illustration fall of the blessing involved in this oneness with our Lord; not alone deliverance from “fear of death,” but the gift of a new, a heavenly life even here and now. “As He is, so are we in this world” made “more than conquerors,” however fierce and long and manifold the conflict, “through Him who loves us.” Not only concerning that glorious, cloudless, eternal future, but our daily pilgrimage here below, may we claim the Master’s promise, “Where I am, there shall also my servant be.”
A.J.H.