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TENTING TOWARD SODOM
sympathize with the poor, the learned with the ignorant,
adults with children and youth. “Let every tempted and
struggling child be taught to go boldly to Christ, and
find mercy and grace in the time of need. We need not
be afraid to trust the faith of the child because he cannot
appreciate the evidences of the divine origin of the Gospel.
Salvation is in the Gospel, not in its evidences. Life is in
the air we breathe, and not in any knowledge of its causes
and chemistry.” Our High Priest sympathized with all
who needed mercy and salvation: with frail and impulsive
Simon Peter; with the sisters of Bethany, Martha and
Mary, at the grave of Lazarus; with the woman taken in
the act of adultery (no doubt a victim of the social evils
of her day); with the publican Zaccheus; with all who
needed the true Burden Bearer of all time. Our High
Priest, while in the flesh, was often tired and hungry;
suffered loneliness such as only His sensitive soul could
suffer; felt despair, as when He cried out on the Cross,
“My God, why hast thou forsaken me?” He was tempted
in all points as we are, and yet without sin. His sympathy
is for all humankind, not for their sins, but for their
frailities and struggles. (Cf. Psa. 103 :13-18).
He knows all our sorrows.
He knows all our strug-
gles. He knows all our frustrations. He knows all our
problems. He is our great High Priest who knoweth all
our infirmities. The trouble with us is that we will not
come uizto Hiw that we may have all these blessings.
What hope can we have of heaven without such a High
Priest? What hope does the man have who ignores Him,
who rejects the only salvation ever offered, the only Atonement
provided, the only Intercession available? If we who
are in Christ so often feel our unworthiness so much that
we question whether we shall ever be able to attain, what
must be the sad condition of the one who does not even
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