Let our earthlv dwelling place be amidst briars and thorns, and our skies be overcast.  Faith feeds on the fact that "eternal sunshine settles" on our Head.  Our "life is hid with Christ in God." He and I are one, and "as he is (in yonder glory) so are we in this world" (I John 4:17).  A letter just at hand from one of our graduates so well illustrates the truth that we quote it in part:

I praise God for making known unto me that the riches of Christ arc mine by grace, accomplished through the death and resurrection of Christ.  So long I struggled to get to a place where it wouldn't be this everlasting up and down existence.  I earnestly desired a victorious Christian life but the more I worked for it, the more miserable I became.  I tried to attain unto it by prayers, obedience, resolutions and vows, but all to no avail.  I had been saved from the guilt of sin by faith in Christ.  Why should I have been so stupid as to think that by works I could be saved from the power of sin?  The fact that my deliverance could come only through faith, as I appropriated the death and resurrection of Christ, never dawned upon my soul.  Not until January of this year did the truth of my identification with Christ's death dawn upon me.  I believe I saw for the first time what Paul meant when he said, "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world." I praise the Lord for the Cross; for when all hope failed of ever shaking off the fetters of sin, through the Cross I rose victor over the power of sin.  When nothing else could avail, death set me free.