The words are probably the most plain, the most authoritarian, the most all-inclusive of the great "I am" statements made by Jesus Christ. In Chapter 14 of the Gospel According to St. John, verse 6: "I am the way, the truth, and the life." In unmistakable, explicit words, our Lord is saying that the human being cannot have life without him. I suppose that our culture can be divided into two types of persons - those who say in whatever comfortable and luxurious situations they find themselves in: "This is the life!" And the other group who looks around them in frustration, bewilderment, and a plaguing sense of uselessness and asks: "What’s life all about, anyway?"

A periodical tells us a story about the last days of the late actor, John Barrymore. That incorrigible character was confined t…