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creation He needs human help, human faith, and 

 human suffering. He is giving to each human being 

 the opportunity and the honour of being a fellow- 

 worker with Himself; and enabling all who engage 

 in this blessed work to know, by their own experience, 

 something of the yearning compassion for men which 

 caused Himself to take the form of a servant, and to 

 become "obedient unto death, even the death of the 

 cross"; and something, too, of the joy in the salvation 

 of men that was set before Himself, for which He 

 'endured the cross, despising the shame" ; the earnest 

 and foretaste of the everlasting rest and blessedness 

 which they shall share with Him when the work of 

 redemption is completed. 



