Cross has fixed an eternal separation between us and the old man. Be this my lifelong attitude! Only thus can I go in “by the blood of Jesus.” It has often been true of a Jewish or Hindu convert to Christianity that the relatives, in order to express how completely they cast him out, actually celebrate his funeral. Henceforth they treat him as though he no longer exists. We once heard a Jewish Christian thus describe his own “burial.” Just after that funeral had been celebrated, the father made as