criticism were dry to him. But his heart was moved by the grandeur of the 

 first chapter of Genesis, his conscience responded to the second and third 

 chapters, his moral judgment pronounced a reverent amen to the Ten Com. 

 mandments, and his whole spiritual nature rejoiced in the Sermon on the 

 Mount. He thought that the Lord's Prayer carried in itself the evidence of 

 its divine origin ; he bowed with reverent and rejoicing faith at the foot of 

 the Cross ; and declared that in the very construction of the human heart, the 

 dread sacrifice on Calvary was prefigured and required. Science had not, 

 in his view, completed her task until she had led man to God; knowledge 

 must be followed by insight, and insight by that religious wisdom which will 

 infallibly show the divine beauty of Jesus and the necessity of his messages 

 of reconciling mercy ; sin was the one great sorrow of the universe, and 

 Christ the only adequate Consoler. 



May our meditations upon the example of this disciple lead each of us, 

 also, to the Master in whose promises he humbly trusted and found rest ! 



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