72 The Chosen People. CHAP. 



method of teaching and government. It was to 

 those of the Apostles who had learned the most of 

 His mind and spirit, that He accorded the marvellous 

 privilege of witnessing His heavenly glory on the 

 Mount of Transfiguration. 1 



This principle, that to those who have shall be 

 given, is not, so far as I am aware, brought into 

 prominence in the Old Testament : but the preceding 

 principle, of which it is a development, that progress 

 begins with individuals and not with multitudes, 

 this has been the Divine method from the first. 

 The first step taken in history towards the Divine 

 aim of the formation of a Church which was ulti- 

 mately to include all mankind, was the calling of 

 Abraham to be the father of a chosen people, 

 through whom Prophecy and Kevelation were to 

 be given to man, and of whose race according to 

 the flesh the Son of God was to be born, to the end 

 that in Him all the kindreds of the earth should be 

 blessed. And all the history of the Chosen People 

 shows that among them as in every history that 

 has to relate anything worth achieving the Provi- 

 dential method of progress is to raise up chosen men, 

 teachers, and leaders, from time to time : Moses, 

 David, Isaiah, and all the long line of heroes, 

 prophets, saints, and martyrs, leading up to Him who 

 is eminently the chosen of God, even Christ. 



To sum up our results : It is an obvious fact that 

 1 Pastor Pastorum, p. 143. 



