"FOLLOW ME."

EVERY soul has its calvary and that crucial hour in each life will witness the peaceful, forgiving, trustful spirit that was seen in Jesus, or it will witness the hateful, furious appalling dissolution that came to the unrepentant companion of his cross. "Follow me," he cries from the scene of his crucifixion. " Follow me through the carpenter shop of Nazareth and the sick room of Nain and the street riots of Capernaum and the tears of Gethsemane." We should expect no share in the fruits of Christ's death, unless we participate in the work of his life. The cross is a meaningless symbol until we approach it over the pathway of humility, trust, self-denial and obedience.

"Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born,
But not within thyself, thy soul shall be forlorn.
The cross on Golgotha thou lookest to in vain,
If not within thyself it be set up again."

Scanned from Fifty Great Cartoons (Chicago: The Ram's Horn Press, 1899) unpaginated. This cartoon is part of the collections of the The Cartoon Research Library of Ohio State University.