66 The Fundamentals He declared, were ignorant of the true character of God. Only those truly knew it who discovered or recognized it in Him. “He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father. No man cometh unto the Father but by Me. No man knoweth the Son save the Father, and no man knoweth the Father save the Son and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal Him.” These are not arbitrary statutes. They are simple statements of fact. The world’s knowledge of the character of God has depended and depends now on its knowledge of God in Christ, A good and worthy, an adequate and satisfying God, i. e., God in truth, is known only where men have been in contact with the message of the historic Christ. This simple fact involves a sufficient missionary responsi bility. Men will only know a good and loving Father as their God, i. e., they will know God, only as they are brought into the knowledge of Christ, who is the only perfect revelation of God. For those who have this knowledge to withhold it from the whole world is to do two things: I t is to condemn the world to godlessness, and it is to raise the suspicion that those who think they have the knowledge of God are in reality ig norant of what Christ was and what He came to do. “I t is the sincere and deep conviction of my soul,” said Phillips Brooks, “when I declare that if the Christian faith does not culminate and complete itself in the effort to make Christ known to all the world, that faith appears to me a thoroughly unreal and insig nificant thing, destitute of power for the single life and in capable of being convincingly proved to be true.” And I recall a remark of Principal Rainy’s to the effect that the measure of our sense of missionary duty was simply the measure of our personal valuation of Christ. If He is God to us, all in all to our minds and souls, we shall realize that He alone can be this to every man, and that He must be offered thus to every other man. The Unitarian view has never pro duced a mission, save under an inherited momentum or the communicated stimulus of evangelicalism, and it has been in-
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