The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1909-12-24
-Mhaf WAS in him He

hedrt-What was in him. He knew
the world, not as the traveller knows
it, jbut as the Creator perceives it.
His thoughts were of nations more
than of His nation; of the world
adher than Of His birthplace. He
spdke with a note of authority in
evdry utterance, while His content
pofaries were babbling bu: of tradi-
tioh. Their eyes were in the back OF
thdir heads; and such narrow, blinded
eyis at that. His face was toward the
future. All time He had for His pros
pett. He spoke of the end Of the age
with the same calm gertrude as char
acterized His insight into conditions
th}n existing. He was in attitude, IN
utterance, in outlook, in the sublime
confidence Of His expectations, in the
precision of His foresight, the Son OF
the Eternal. He saw as in ?. mirror all
the ages and claimed them for His
own. He held toward men an attl-
tude of supremacy which was the
correlate of this sense of Himself. He
babe them come 70 Him, believe in
Him, follow Him, honor Him. He
commanded their service, accepted
their worship, declared that when
they called Him Master and Lord they
said WELL for so He was. Nor are
these assertions of Himself mere dis
iecta membra. They are the very
fibre of the. revelation He makes.
They are unified by Himself into
program. He was not merely His
own subject. He made Himself the
subject of His messengers. He looked
forward to the realization of King
dom of the Spirit, of which He Him.
self was to be the King. Into this
kingdom, as before Him at last for
decisive Judgment, all nations were
10 be gathered. Every, creature" was
His objective AS to no other who
ever lived or taught, everything hui
man was germane to Him, and fell
within the scope of His purpose.
Himself the Way, the Truth, the Life,
He knew and said that He came to
bring and be the Life Of men: BE
cause l live ye shall live also" In
Him was life and the life was the
light Of men. And the light shined
in the darkness; and the darkness ap-
pretended it not.
Now such a phenomenon of being
and the reality of being has to be
accounted for. But how? Source
must equal issue. By so much as the
stream is strong and free and full, by
that same measure its spring must
be high. Cause must be adequate to
effect No insignificant cause ever yet
produced so transcendent an effect.
Ask yourself the question Jesus urged
upon His associates: What think We
of Christ? Whose Son is He?" Can
Joseph, the Galilean carpenter, be the
actual, as he was the putative, father
Of such son? Must not the Father
of such an One have in Himself the
infinitudes, the magnitudes, the uni
versailles which characterize the
Sons life and service? Who but God
could beget such Son? And every
word of Jesus as to His own origin
bears out the assertions Of the later
New Testament: Il and My Father
are one" HE that hath seen Me
hath seen the Father" mo man
hath seen the Father, save He that is
from God; He hath seen the Father.
These are the uniform and character
istic words of Jesus when speaking OF
His origin. He knew that He was
come from God and that He was go
ing to God. For this cause they
sought to kill Him, because He called
God His own Father Chat is, His
Father in a unique and entirely indi-
vidual sense) making Himself equal
with God. This, then, is the one,
only, adequate explanation of Jesus:
God hath spoken unto us in His Son,
who is the effulgence of Gods glory;
who bears the very impress of His
essential life Thence came the Light
of the World! Bathed in It's stream
ing radiance, we are drawn, as chill
dren of the Resurrection, to our Mas
ter's feet Our alteration is the
ecstasy of Thomas: My Lord and
my God"