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Transcendent Trinity, but to the Humanity which, in 

 Him, enters into that Experience, through the completion 

 of process. This I believe to be the true line of solution 

 of the difficulty. We can only indicate it, not fill out the 

 detail. The whole matter is too high for human reason- 

 ing. None the less it is our duty to face all problems 

 fairly and squarely, nor seek ease in vagueness. In all 

 search after knowledge the teaching of the Prophet holds, 

 "line upon line, precept upon precept. Here a little, 

 there a little," as well in knowledge of the things of 

 eternity as of the things of time. No effort to under- 

 stand, however humble and inchoate its beginnings, 

 is without fruit; and no man may stand aside and yet 

 hope to be of service to his fellows and to God. We 

 simply dare not forbear to search, nor to set forth such 

 little glimpses of truth as we believe we have gained. 

 Each puny lantern lighted by some spark of the glowing 

 Truth may serve to aid the footsteps of others who cry, 

 with Goethe, " More Light ! " Let this be our apology to 

 those who would have high matters left alone 1 . 



One chief point is seen to be emerging ever more 

 clearly. There are not two totally different natures, God 

 and man. Man is becoming as God by throwing off 

 external limitation, God became man by putting on 

 limitation. As Man, Christ had a beginning, though as 



1 Had the eighteenth and nineteenth of Prof. Pringle Pattison's 

 Gifford Lectures been published a year earlier this chapter might 

 never have been written. That which I was groping after he has 

 set forth with incomparable charm and lucidity. But since the 

 problem is approached from a slightly different angle, I have 

 allowed the chapter to stand practically unaltered after reading 

 those lectures, only inserting a few explanatory words that bear 

 the impress of his thought; for the conclusions are the same, 

 though the method 13 different. To re-write might have been to 

 gain in sureness, but it would have been to write a vision seen 

 with other's eyes, and not one's own. 



