For a moment Emmanuel Himself was loth to stoop, but only for a moment.

For He soon rose from off His face in a bath of blood, saying, Not My will, but Thine be done! When Thomas A Kempis is negotiating with the Loth-to-stoops of his unevangelical day, we hear him saying to them things like this: 'Jesus Christ was despised of men, forsaken of His friends and lovers, and in the midst of slanders.
He was willing, under His Father's will, to suffer and to be despised, and darest thou to complain of any man's usage of thee?
Christ, thy Master, had enemies and back-biters, and dost thou expect to have all men to be thy friends and benefactors?
Whence shall thy patience attain her promised crown if no adversity befall thee?
Suffer thou with Jesus Christ, and for His sake, if thou wouldst reign with Him.

Set thyself, therefore, to bear manfully the cross of thy Lord, who, out of love, was crucified for thee.

Know for certain that thou must lead a daily dying life.

And the more that thou diest to thyself all that the more shalt thou live unto God.' With many such words as these did Thomas teach the saints of his day to stoop to their daily cross; a daily cross then, which has now been for long to him and to them an everlasting crown.
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