If I shall be lifted up, I shall draw all things to myself, said our Lord speaking of the new life to be given to men by his redemption. ‘All things’—every faculty of man, every from of human experience; indeed, everything that man does and is, save for sin alone, is drawn into Christ and into his life. Apart from sin there is nothing which cannot partake in and be an expression of the eternal life of Christ endlessly renewing itself in time and place by the sacraments of his presence. ‘This is the bread that gives life to the world.’ And what is this bread? ‘This is my body.’ The bread is Christ himself. And what is the life? It is his life—‘I live, now not I, but Christ lives in me’. Without Christ there can be no life.