A class of medical students were being taken through the wards
of a hospital. Their professor was showing them some strange
case--a man who was a mere wreck, lying upon his bed hopeless
and helpless, a broken fragment of humanity, a man who had
spoiled his chances, sold his soul and body. The professor said
in Latin, _Fiat experimentum in corpore vili_, “Let the
experiment be made upon a worthless body.” But the man was an
old university man, and before the days of his crash, he, too,
knew Latin. He arose in his bed and answered back, _Pro hoc
corpore vili Jesus Christus mortuus est_, “For this worthless
body Jesus Christ has died.” And from every broken bit of the
wreckage of humanity, and from every bit of your own soul’s life
that is wrecked and broken, comes the same response to-day.
God knows that for this worthless body Jesus Christ is on His
cross still waiting to see of the travail of His soul.--JOHN
KELMAN.
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