Red Footprints

Saturday.” Luke 14: 25-35.

Sin makes sacrifice. It grows pain. There were no thorns in God’s Eden. Because of sin things are wrong in the world. And so we are called upon to put out every selfish thing and leave out some things not selfish — that God may have the freest use of us in his plan for a world. So Abraham gave up the dearest thing to him, his son, and Hannah her’s, and so much more, God his.

Open in the reader The Bent-Knee Time

Restored from a scan of the 1918 edition, with page headers and numbers removed and words rejoined across line breaks. Scan-derived text, still being proofread; compare the original scan before quoting.