One Solitary Life

Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman.

He grew up in another obscure village. He worked in a carpenter shop unil He

was thirty, and then for three years He was an itinerant preacher. He never

wrote a book. He never held an office.

He never owned a home. He never set foot inside a big city. He never traveled

two hundred miles from the place where He was born. He had no credentials but

Himself.

While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against Him. His

friends ran away. One of them denied Him. He was turned over to His enemies.

He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross between two

thieves.

His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth while

He was dying -- and that was His coat. When He was dead, He was taken down and

laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.

Nineteen wide centuries have come and gone and today He is the centerpiece of

the human race and the leader of progress. I am far within the mark when I say

that all the armies that ever marched, and all the navies that ever were built,

and all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned, put

together have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as

that One Solitary Life.

author unknown

Have you met Him?

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