52 The Fundamentals out and to enter no more into their victims. He knew the Father as no mere creature could possibly know Him. “All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, save the Father; neither doth any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal Him” (Matt. xi:27). A difficulty will be felt when we attempt to reconcile this infinite knowledge of men, of jthe unseen world, and of God Himself, which the Son of Qod possessed, with the state ment in Mark that He did not know the day nor the hour of His Second Advent. But the difficulty is no greater than that other in John, where we are told that His face was wet with human tears while the almighty voice was crying, “Laz arus, come forth.” In both cases the divine and the human are seen intermingling, and yet they are perfectly distinct. Such are some of the beams of Christ’s moral glories as they shine everywhere on the pages of the Four Gospels. A very few of them are here gathered together. Nevertheless, what a stupendous picture do they form! In the annals of our race there is nothing like it. Here is One presented to us who is a true and genuine man, and yet He is the ideal, the representative, the pattern man, claiming kindred in the catholicity of His manhood with all men; sinless, yet full of tenderness and pity; higher than the highest, yet stooping to the lowest and to the most needy; perfect in all His words and ways, in His life and in His death! Who taught the evangelists to draw this matchless por trait? The pen which traced these glories of Jesus—could it have been other than an inspired pen? This question leads us to the second part of our task, which can soon be disposed of. II. THE APPLICATION OF THE ARGUMENT Nothing is more obvious than the very commonplace axiom, that every effect requires an adequate cause. Given a
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