The Drawing Power of the Cross

"I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me" (Jn. 12:32). "Christ made reconciliation by His great propitiatory offering of Himself. As we look at the cross our enmity to God lies down, and we learn in humble penitence to seek for forgiveness. Christ has died for every man (Heb. 2:9). Before that transcendent reality all mutual enmity should be hushed. In the love of our Peacemaker, which He has shown in dying for us, we have the strongest possible motive for a common fervor of love to Him that should quench and drown all petty animosities and unite all Christians into one body."