The Inevitable Christ

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The story has come down to us from the early centuries that when the storm of persecution broke over the Christian church in Rome, the little company of the believers besought Peter to seek refuge in flight. His sense, both of loyalty and of honor, rose up to protest. But his friends pleaded that their deaths would be only the loss of a few sheep of the fold, his would be the loss of the shepherd. He set out by night along the Appian Way. But as he traveled a vision flashed upon him of a figure clothed in white and a face crowned with thorns. “Quo vadis, domine?” “Whither goest thou, Lord?” Peter cried to Christ. “To Rome, to be crucified instead of Thee.”
Into the night the vision ebbed like breath
And Peter turned and rushed on Rome and death.
That is a parable of the inevitable Christ. Whether we seek him or seek him not, whether we are in the way of our duty or out of it, the vision of Christ shall meet us face to face.

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