A MAP OF LIFE The Church, thus understood, is a great thing: a thing immeasurably beyond man’s deserts, and fulfilling the three primary needs. But that is not all. He who sees only that is missing the depth of it. For observe that, as stated, it leaves two questions unsettled. The first is this : the work of God among men is a close-knit, deeply-intertwined thing without loose ends. Why then should men share in the benefits of Christ’s atonement? He offered a redeeming sacrifice — but where do men come in? How can they share in His act? And the second is this : Christ said : “ I am the Way, and Truth and the Life.” The description of the Church set out above would be perfect if He had said have : but He said am. What has become of that mysterious word? “l AM THE life” Let us consider the second question first: Christ is the life, the life that must live in us if we are to be capable of Heaven. Christ then must live in us. How? How can one being live in another? Here we must follow very closely. We dare not abandon the phrase with a vague feeling that its general meaning is obvious and edifying, but that it will not bear too close inspection. For He comes back to this idea of His living in men again and again, literally scores of times. Like every word of Christ, this one demands the closest scrutiny. No words were ever weighed as His were, and if by chance we should 6o