A MAP OF LIFE Room after His ascension by the power of the Holy Ghost. The Church, then, is His body, linked to Him really, organically, inseparably, as a body to its head; His life flows through the Church as my life flows through my body. My body has cells: and so has His. And as I live in the individual cells of my body, so He lives in the individual cells of His body. Membership of His Church then means more than joining up with a useful organization from which many spiritual benefits may be derived. His Church is — mysteriously but really — His body. Joining it means being built into His body — that is to say incorporated with Him. Once we are thus incorporated with Him, we are cells in His body. He can live in us. That is the Church — the living body of Christ. Because of this, Christ could say to Saul when he was persecuting the Church — “Why persecutest thou Me? ” So, Christ’s own words, “I am with you all days even to the end of the world,” have a more immense depth of meaning than we at first knew. So we see the meaning of that strange word am — “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.” To be in the way we must be in Him: to possess the truth we must possess Him: to have the life in us. He must live in us. REDEEMED HUMANITY To this idea of the Church we have come, following up the second of the two questions left unsolved : 62