Nearly tour centuries ago, a poor monk, bowed down with a sense of sin, might have been seen painfully climbing upon his knees, the twenty-eight steps of the Sancta Scala at Rome. Many a time the words of the " Absolvo te " (I forgive thee) had been pronounced in his ears, but coming only from the lips of a fellow-sinner, they brought no. ease to his conscience.
Suddenly, a sentence from God's Word, " The Just shall live by faith" (Rom. 1. 17), flashed upon his mind, and Martin Luther rose from his knees a justified and forgiven man Faith is the way of life.