The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-12-23

no demonstration. Such utterances
were the spontaneities of His mind;
| the inevitabilities of His conscious
ness. He could not but thus speak.
Any other tone would have been out
Of keeping with his self-knowledge.
Il know" He said, "whence l came
and whittier l CO." And this knowl-
edge was of that kind no other could
share with Him. II was self-knowl-
edge "Ye know not whence | come
or whittier ] CO." Standing in that
narrow sphere, among souls so want
Ing insight, speaking to an age that
had no longer within itself either the
possibilities or the realization of Wis
ION. Jesus knew God as by the PARTIES
of His own life. He knew man as
knowing not his features, but his
heart--what was in him. He knew
the world, not as the traveller knows
It, but as the Creator perceives It.
His thoughts were of nations more
than of His nation; of the world
rather than of His birthplace. He
spoke with a note of authority in
every utterance, while His contem-
poraries were babblng bu' of tradi-
tion. Their eyes were in the back of
their heads; and such narrow, blinded
future. All time He had for His pros
pect. He spoke of the end of the age
with the same calm certitude as char
acterized His insight into conditions
then 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 atti-
tude of supremacy which was the
correlate of this sense of Himself. He
b9de them como TO 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 we'll. for so He was. Nor are
these assertions of Himself mere dis
jecta 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 a King
iom OF the Spirit, of which He Him
self was to DC the King. Into this
Kingdom, as before Him at last for
ltt-SlfN JuuSllShts all AdllOuS MtlS
20 be gathered. Every creature" was
His objective. AS to no other who
ever lived or taught, everything hu-
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 | 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 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 ye
of Christ? Whose Son is He?" Can
Joseph, the Galilean carpenter, be the
actual 3s he was the putatiye, father
OF such son? Must not the Father
of such an One have in Himself the
inlnitudes. the magnitudes, the uni
N@fsalltlPS Whlch characterize the
Sons life and service? Who but God
could beget such a 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 lie that is
from Cod; 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 60
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 it7 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 Cod"