CHRIST a PLANT of RENOWN (Ezek 34:29). Christianity is eternity in time. With the appearance of Christ a new sprig was planted into the withered ground of the world of man. And all who have been grafted into it have become partakers of eternal life. Thus Christians have found the fountain of eternal youth. The genuine life of faith never grows old. “Though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day” (2 Cor 4:I6).…And yet! The Christians of the letter to the Hebrews had grown tired. After a richly blessed start, their inward life had begun to droop.…How can they be helped? Only by renewed contact with the Fountain of power. The exceeding glory and reality of NT salvation must come before their minds and hearts as a fresh vision. They must be brought to acknowledge that leaving the ground of grace means robbing oneself;…turning back to the past is losing the future. Only grace can lead to the goal. —E. Sauer