We. who sometimes sufier from pangs! of loneliness, are prone to ask w!iy one like- Jesus, one so cemi’ie innate, sympathetic, and considerate of others would ever be lonely v\ i y mould J! . <:: - Sorted- or forsaken by those wJU whom: he associated in His cm th ly life ‘ The an.se wvr in one ease, that of his encounter with the Phari sees. is that he was doing the will of Goh and ■ y v. , e not. J * n‘s Gosptil tells of how Jmis pro claimed himself as the li.-ht of the world and the agent of his heavenly Father, and the Phari j ridicule Him. The, reason is ob viousij Jesus said. "1 do always the tilings fh.at arc pleasing to Him ■' -4; a is w h ! 1 ah >ne in ata crowd against the way of life that i. pleasing to God. Some- IVerr M’rairi It is an astonishing fart also that his friends forsook Him in Ins hour of need. The reason foi their flight is clear; they ran be en use' of fear. They had not pur posed in their hearts to desert 1 nt in fact, some had boasted that they would never forsake Him but m tlie houi oj testing

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