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But if God is a person striving to communicate with 

 man, and if man is a person intended to conform to 

 environment by becoming like God, what is more 

 probable from the scientific stand-point than that God 

 should seek and find some means of makiog himself 

 clearly known to man in some personal way ? I do 

 not see how any scientific man who believes in a per- 

 sonal God can avoid asking this question. And is 

 there any more natural solution of the question than 

 that given in the Bible ? " God was in Christ recon- 

 ciling the world to himself." "God, who spake in 

 time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in 

 these last days spoken unto us by his son." Philip 

 says, " Lord, show us the Father and it sufficeth us." 

 Jesus saith unto him, " Have I been so long time with 

 you, and dost thou not know me, Philip ? he that hath 

 seen me hath seen the Father ; how sayest thou shew 

 us the Father ? Believest thou not that I am in the 

 Father and the Father in me? the words that I say 

 unto you I speak not from myself : but the Father 

 abiding in me doeth his works." 



" And this is the condemnation, that light is come 

 into the wo:dd, and men loved darkness rather than 

 light, because their deeds were evil." 



Something more is needed than light. We need 

 more light and knowledge of our duty ; we need vastly 

 more the will-power to do it. I know how I ought to 

 live ; I do not live thus. What I need is not a 

 teacher, but power to become a son of God. " I de- 

 light in the law of God after the inward man : but I 

 see a different law in my members, warring against 

 the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity 

 under the law of sin which is in my members. O 



