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The Fundamentals. scious of the flesh, but supremely conscious of the mystic Word veiled in flesh and shining through it. He is perfectly con scious of the human, and thereby finds Deity. So that when John comes to write of this One, he speaks of Him as “the Son of God.” He remembers the warmth of His bosom, the gen tleness of His touch, the love-lit glory of His eyes, but He is “the Son of God.” The word “manifested” presupposes existence prior to manifestation. In the Man of Nazareth there was manifesta tion of One Who had existed long before the Man of Nazareth. The enemy is described here as the devil. We read that he is a murderer, a liar, a betrayer; the fountain-head of sin, the lawless one. The work of the murderer is destruction of life. The work of the liar is the extinguishing of light. The work of the betrayer is the violation of love. The work of the arch sinner is the breaking of the law. These are the works of the devil. He is a murderer. This consists fundamentally in the de struction of life on its highest level, which is the spiritual. Alienation from God is the devil’s work. It is also death on the level of the mental. Vision which fails to include God is practical blindness. On the physical plane, all disease and all pain are ultimately results of sin, and are among the works of the devil. These things all lie within the realm of his work as murderer, destroyer of human life. He is more. He is the liar, and to him is due the extin guishing of light, so that men blunder along the way. All ignorance, all despair, all wandering over the trackless deserts of life, are due to extinction of spiritual light in the mind of man. All ignorance is the result of the clouding of man’s vision of God. “This is life eternal,” age-abiding life, high life, deep life, broad life, long life, comprehensive life, “that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even
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