For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

In the Cross of Christ I glory, Tow’ring o’er the wrecks of time —

Martin Luther preached the doctrine of Atoning Blood to slumbering Europe, and Europe awoke from the dead.

Amid all his defenses of Divine Sovereignty, Calvin never ignored or belittled the Atonement.

Cowper sang of it among the water lilies of the Ouse.

Spurgeon thundered this glorious doctrine of Christ Crucified into the ears of peer and peasant with a voice like the sound of many waters.

John Bunyan made the Cross the starting-point to the Celestial City.

Moody’s bells all chimed to the keynote of Calvary.

Napoleon, after conquering almost the whole of Europe, put his finger on the red spot on the map representing the British Isles, and said, “Were it not for that red spot, I’d conquer the world!”

So says Satan about the place called Calvary, where Jesus Christ shed His Blood.

Beneath the Cross of Jesus I fain would take my stand, The shadow of a mighty rock Within a weary land; A home within the wilderness, A rest upon the way, From the burning of the noontide heat, And the burden of the day.

Upon the Cross of Jesus Mine eye at times can see The very dying form of One Who suffered there for me.

And from my smitten heart with tears, These wonders I confess, The wonder of His glorious love, And my own worthlessness.

I take, O Cross, thy shadow For my abiding place; I ask no other sunshine than The sunshine of His face; Content to let the world go by, To know no gain nor loss, My sinful self my only shame, My glory all the Cross.

Every true preacher of the Gospel strings all his pearls on the Red Cord of the Atonement. T. L. CUYLER

Calvary covers it all!

Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God.

Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.