an unwilling victim of circumstances, or the helpless prey of ungovernable political forces, or a martyr like Caesar, or William the Silent, or Lincoln. He gave his life consciously and deliberately. It was not snatched from him by accident or fate, but freely surrendered by a heart willing to pay the great price. Again and again he endeavored to make this plain. “I have power to lay down my life,” he said, “and I have power to take it again.” It was his conviction from the beginning that he came into the
