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The Fundamentals. it, and to lift him upon that regard into regard for the One great Father, God. He comes always to fulfill. Wherever He has come; wherever He has been presented; wherever men low or high in the intellectual scale, have seen God in Christ, their hands have opened and they have dropped their fetishes, and their idols, and have yielded themselves to Him. If the world has not come to God through Him, it is because the world has not yet seen Him; and if the world has not yet seen Him, the blame is upon the Christian Church. f ih e wide issues of the manifestation of God in Christ are—the union of intellectual apprehension and moral improve ment, and the relation of religion to life. In no system of reli gion in the world has there come to men the idea of God which unites religion with morals, save in this revelation of God in Jesus Christ | REVELATION TO THE INDIVIDUAL. . Secondly, the effect of the manifestation in relation to the individual. In illustration we cannot do better than by taking Phihp, the man to whom Christ spoke. To Philip’s request, Show us the Father and it sufficeth us”, Jesus said, “ Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip?” The evident sense of the question is, You have seen enough of Me, Philip, if you have really seen Me, to have found what you are asking for—a vision of God. What then had Philip seen? What revelations of Deity had come to this man who thought he had not seen and did not understand? We will adhere to what Scripture tells of what Philip had seen. All the story is in John. Philip is referred to by Matthew, Mark, and Luke, as being among the number of the apostles! but in no other way. John tells of four occasions when Philip is seen in union with Christ. Philip was the first man Jesus called to follow H im ; not the first man to follow Him. There were other two who preceded Philip, going after Christ in con-
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