六月廿五日
你要登高山。（赛40：9）
我们对于基督的认识像登山一样。当你到达山麓的时候你所看到的很少，山本身也显身不怎麽高。囿于小山谷，所看到的东西便只有几条淙淙的流水，奔向山下的小溪。爬上小岗，山谷便在我们脚下变得大了、深广了。再向上，你便看到了附近的星罗棋布的村落，阡陌纵横的田地，你的心中必爲伟大的景致欣喜异常。再往上爬，视野愈加扩展，直到你登上山顶，环观东西南北，全地都摆在你的眼前，如在衽席之上。远处，或许数百里之外的蓊郁森林，水天相接的大海，闪光似镜的江河，浓烟笼罩、高矗云端的工厂烟囱或是海口中栉比龙鳞的点点白帆，这些美景都使你欢乐兴奋，使你心旷神怡起来。你必说：“我真不知道登高之后，开了这麽大的眼界。”基督徒的生活也是这样：“欲穷千里目，更上一层楼。”当我们初信基督的时候，我们所看到他的很少。我们越登高，越能发现他的荣美。但谁曾攀登到绝顶呢？谁曾量过他过于人所能测度的长阔高深的大爱呢？当保罗年迈发白的时候，战颤地坐在罗马的一个牢狱之中，比我们更能说：“我知道我所信的是谁。”因爲他每一次的经验都像爬山一样，每一次患难都像从这个山峰到了另一个山峰一样，而他的死就像登上了最高峰一样，从那里他可以看到主的整个的信实和大爱，因此他把自己的灵魂交付他。亲爱的朋友，起来，登上高山的绝顶过著登峰造极的生活吧！
June
25
“Get
thee up into the high mountain.” — Isaiah 40:9
Our knowledge of Christ is somewhat like climbing one of our Welsh
mountains. When you are at the base you see but little: the mountain itself
appears to be but one-half as high as it really is. Confined in a little
valley, you discover scarcely anything but the rippling brooks as they descend
into the stream at the foot of the mountain. Climb the first rising knoll, and
the valley lengthens and widens beneath your feet. Go higher, and you see the
country for four or five miles round, and you are delighted with the widening
prospect. Mount still, and the scene enlarges; till at last, when you are on
the summit, and look east, west, north, and south, you see almost all England
lying before you. Yonder is a forest in some distant county, perhaps two
hundred miles away, and here the sea, and there a shining river and the smoking
chimneys of a manufacturing town, or the masts of the ships in a busy port. All
these things please and delight you, and you say, “I could not have
imagined that so much could be seen at this elevation.” Now, the Christian
life is of the same order. When we first believe in Christ we see but little of
Him. The higher we climb the more we discover of His beauties. But who has ever
gained the summit? Who has known all the heights and depths of the love of
Christ which passes knowledge? Paul, when grown old, sitting grey-haired,
shivering in a dungeon in Rome, could say with greater emphasis than we can,
“I know whom I have believed,” for each experience had been like the
climbing of a hill, each trial had been like ascending another summit, and his
death seemed like gaining the top of the mountain, from which he could see the
whole of the faithfulness and the love of Him to whom he had committed his
soul. Get thee up, dear friend, into the high mountain.
