IV

And  as  Christ  teaches  us  to  pray  for  others,
so  also  does  He  teach  us  to  pray  for  ourselves.
Two  points  only  in  this  connection  can  be  noted.
(i)  Let  us  pray  when  we  enter  into  our  Geth-
semane  ;  for  every  life  has  its  Gethsemane.  Some
there  are  who  have  not  yet  entered  it ;  they  are
young,  and  their  way  thus  far  has  been  among  the
roses  and  lilies  of  life.  But  for  them,  too,  the  path
leads  to  Gethsemane,  and  some  day  they  also  will
lie  prostrate  in  an  agony,  under  the  darkening
olive  trees.  And  some  there  are  to  whom  life
seems  but  one  long  Gethsemane.  In  that  dread
agony  God  help  us  to  pray !  Nay,  what  else  then
can  a  man  do  but,  as  Browning  says,  catch  at
God's  skirts  and  pray?  But  that  he  can  do.
