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Updated: May 29, 2025
Tread in Christ's footsteps, 'follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. Make Him the pattern and example, and then you shall walk safely; and the path will carry you right into 'His presence where there is fulness of joy. No great, noble, right, blessed life is lived without rigid self-control, self-denial, and self-crucifixion. Do not fancy that that means the absence of joy and spontaneity.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is as true of earthly as of heavenly things.
And it fails generally for very matter-of-fact reasons most likely because one day we forget the rules. All these methods that have been named the self-sufficient method, the self-crucifixion method, the mimetic method, and the diary method are perfectly human, perfectly natural, perfectly ignorant, and as they stand perfectly inadequate. It is not argued, I repeat, that they must be abandoned.
But I recognise the spirit of self-crucifixion, when I see it. And the warning that I give you, is not because I forget, but because I remember."
"Redemption by suffering," he put in. "If you will in one word, self-crucifixion I must ask you, and don't take it personally, because of what you told me of yourself: In life generally, one does not accept from people any teaching that is not the result of firsthand experience on their parts.
No in the contemplative, but in the active, lies true hope; not in rapture, but in reality, lies true life; not in the realm of ideals, but among tangible things, is man's sanctification wrought. Resolution, effort, pain, self-crucifixion, agony all the things already dismissed as futile in themselves, must now be restored to office, and a tenfold responsibility laid upon them.
"Must," and after that Oliver knows there is very little good of arguing the point much further. He has known Ted for eight years without finding out that a certain bitter and Calvinistic penchant for self-crucifixion is one of his ruling forces and one of those least easily deduced from his externals. Still he makes a last effort. "Now don't start getting all tied up about that.
That is the law for all moral and spiritual reformations. Every cause must have its martyrs. No man can be fruit-bearing unless he sacrifices himself. We shall not 'quicken' our fellows unless we 'die, either literally or by the not less real martyrdom of rigid self-crucifixion and suppression.
He will have no unwilling soldiers, nor any who have been beguiled into the ranks. No doubt, some went away, and walked no more with Him. The terms of service are clear. Discipleship means imitation, and imitation means self-crucifixion.
It is to be doubted if there can be a hell of greater torment than that experienced by one who, endowed by nature with a capacity for great living, is betrayed by the very strength of his genius into a situation that is intolerable of his real self, and is forced, thus, to a continuous self-crucifixion and death.
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