Jesus  becomes  thus  in  his  life  of  love  and  sacrificial  death  the  type  and
ensample  of  all  lives  of  love,  labors  of  good  will,  and  sacrificial  service
for  human  weal.  All  benefactors,  all  leaders,  all  elevators  of  humanity
must  pattern  themselves  after  their  divine  prototype.  Humanity  has
never  taken  a  step  forward  and  upward  without  that  step  dripping  with
blood.  Ever)r  truth  coming  from  God  to  man  has  been  received  with
mocks  and  scoffs,  and  its  evangels  baptized  in  blood.  The  divinest  lives
have  ever  been  crowned  with  thorns,  their  brows  ever  damp  and  dripping
with  blood.  Jesus  and  the  cross,  Socrates  and  the  poisoned  cup,  Stephen
and  stones,  Paul  and  bonds  and  imprisonment,  James  and  the  block,
Savonarola  and  the  scaffold,  Galileo  and  the  dungeon,  Joan  of  Arc  and
the  fagot,  Puritans  and  persecution,  Lincoln  and  Garfield  and  the  bullet,
are  all  types  of  the  devotements  of  religion,  the  consecrations  of  philan-


2J2  LIFE    OF    PRESIDENT    ALLEN.
