the way He had appointed. May not His very love for them have bidden Him push them away? Away from needless trial and hardship. Surely His love never faltered or the last tender token of it could not have been unfolded.

Love "came of age" in Jesus as in no one else that we know about. It was not childish affection. It was not a love limited to the narrow circle of the average person. With Him it did not exclude human, friendly expression, nor did it stop there. He loved Mary and Martha and ' Lazarus. John is spoken of as His "beloved disciple." But the love of Jesus reached past them to embrace the world. Here is the secret of His seemingly unfeeling question "Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?" It was not that He loved them less, but that He loved all mankind past common understanding. He did not reject His family by His question. He simply included others. He loved with a universal, all-embracing, selfless love, that was big enough to include us all, yet he did not forget to love John, and His mother, and Joseph, and the thief on the cross, and little children, and most of all His Father in heaven.

Is this then the way to happiness? Yes, I