takes place we know not; He trod the winepress alone (Is 63:3). He is alone in His conflict with the powers of evil, dark without, dark within,—how dark we may gather from the awful cry that escaped from His lips at the end of those long hours, ‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’ What did it mean? It did not mean that He was forsaken by His Father. Had not the Father Said, ‘This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased’ (Mt 3:17)? Had not He Himself said, ‘Behold the hour cometh, yea,