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The Son of God It is difficult to imagine how God could have made Himself known to men in any other way than by the incarna tion. A stranger in a strange land, gaz ing at the stars, solaces his loneliness with the thought that they are shining also on his distant loved ones; but that does not answer the purpose of a letter from home. Coleridge in the Valley of Chamounix hears “ all the signs and wonders of the elements” echoing God; but this falls infinitely short of the satis faction he feels on opening the Book and seeing his Father’s name; a satis faction which he expresses thus: “ It finds me.” If God reveals Himself at all it must be in a human form. He is said to have created man in His own image and after His likeness, the highest of and dominant among the orders of life. Is not this, therefore, the form in which He would probably embody Himself, if He is to embody Himself at all? It is worthy of note that the doc trine of the incarnation, so far from being the sole possession of the Chris tian church, is practically universal; tho often times so vague and even grotesque as to furnish a pathetic commentary on the inadequacy of hufnan wisdom to answer human need. From which we infer that it is manifestly in accord with reason, in so far as reason is repre sented in the intuitions of the race. The false religions abound in avatars and theophanies, vain gropings toward a true embodiment of God.— James Da vid Burrell. Not by Works— Eph. 2:8-10. I heard of a negro in the South some years ago, whose clock got out of repair,
whereupon he removed the hands from the face of the clock and took them to the jeweler with the request that he fix them so that they would run. The jeweler said, “ Mose, you will have to bring your clock down to the shop. Nobody in the world can fix clock hands so they will run when the trouble is with the works inside of the clock.” The negro said, “ Boss, you is trying to get my clock. I won’t trust that clock with any man. If you can’t fix dese' hands, I’ll find, some man that can.” There are any amount of people who are will ing to offer the outside pretenses to morality and religion, but they want to keep the works in the hands of the' devil. The Word of God plainly says, “ My son, give Me thine heart.” A man must be generated before he can be regenerated.— French E. Oliver. No Side Entrance to Heaven A Christian woman said the other day to a friend that she had a pet conviction of her own, though she said she knew it was not Scriptural: it was that a good many lovely, unselfish people whom she knew, but who have no use for religion, were going to get into heaven in some way, so there must be some “ side-door” for them. There have been times when all of us would like to have been able to believe that, for the sake of some one we have known. But God knows that it is not possible; and he has made this very plain. There is no side-door to heaven. There is only one door, and that is Christ. “ I am the door,” said he: “ by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved.” And he had just said, “ Ver ily, verily, I say unto you, He that en- tereth not by the door into the sheep- fold, but climbeth up some other way,
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