Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-06-16

| Ism that has Invented religion 10 hell
unburden the human heart; reverence
the worthy souls that have tried e
penetrate the darkness and to let in
the light yet how pitiful has been
mans failure to find the unknown
God. The Athenians had urwitting-
ly raised monument TO intellect,s
failure. cit said: reason cannot
without divine illumination find God
As profound a reasoner as eyer gave
his brain to mighty thoughts and
honest philosophy was driven in the
very dispair Of reason, science and phil
osophy to put the Socratic argument
which demands and proves the
necessity for a supernatural mani
festation OF God to the world: "Can
man by searching find out God, canst
thou find out the Almighty unto per-
fection?" Ali the philosophers OF the
world answer mo .
Here then, is the need that argues
for revelation OF God to man. All
men are somewhat religious. All men
need God, all men try to find out God
In their vague notions of the super
natural men have tried to incarnate
the divine. They have imagined him
to be in the image of wood or stone or
silver or gold They have thought Of
Him as in the element Of fire or in
some beast or reptile or tree or river
or mountain. 1t may not be unrea-
sonable to suppose that this very
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Divinity to give Him form and sub
stance, shape and incarnation
shows the necessity for a Divine in
carnation. This tendency to give
Deity torn may have been an age
long prophecy and expectation that
God would at,some time in the worlds
spiritual evolution manifest Himself,
take on form, assume mortal ma
ture. In the fullness Of time God
was manifest 10 the flesh. That man
Hesitation was In perfect humanity.
Jesus Christ the perfect man becomes
the incarnation Of the divine. He
alone could say: "he that hath seen
me hath seen the Father, henceforth
ye know him and have seen him. y
Here then Is the revelation of God in
humanity. Jesus Christ inearnating
and manifestlng the Divine is the first
of the Sons of God, But to as many
as receive him to them gives be power
TO become the sons of God. May not
all men, in him, become the Sons Of
God? And as sons, according 10
their capacity inearnations of God
s'tilled with all the fullness Of God,
"who dwelleth with you and shall be
in you"
Did not Jesus Christ the Son of God
become the Son of man to make It
possible for every son Of man to be-
come a son of God? And did not that
perfect son of man incarnate the Di-
vine to demonstrate that God perfect
ly reveals himself in perfect human
ity? O man redeemed believer in the
risen, immortal, divine Christ, those
art now the temple of the living God.
Look for Him, behold Him dwelling
not in temples made with hands, not
ia the clouds and darkness of mystery
and silence, not upon the throne of
the distant and unapproachable heay
ems, but dwelling in the heart and
life of man, dwelling in human love
and faith, dwelling in the worlds
most noble character, dwelling in hui
manity's eternal hope.
The perfection of humanity of
which Christ is the promise and the
ideal will be the complete and perfect
manifestation of God in man. Not
to the unknown God, but to the
known God, to the spirit God, TO the
everlasting Father will these be an
altar in every heart and to him in
love will every life be an offering and
a sacrifice.