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Lord Jesus Clirist, God dwells in us, and we in Him, surely 

 tliere must be a revelation of Himself to the heart in which He 

 thus dwells — a revelation proportionate to the degree in which 

 our wills have become identified with His. This is what He 

 Himself tells us: "If a man wills to do His will, he shall 

 know about my teaching, whether it be of God, or Avhether 

 I speak of Myself."* I do not say that the intellectual side 

 of the question is to be neglected altogether. All error, 

 moral or intellectual, tends to lead us astray. We need that 

 each factor in our complex organization should contribute 

 its proper share to the process of investigation. But 

 inasmuch as the highest relations of God to His creatures 

 are moral and spiritual, not merely intellectual or material, it 

 is to the correspondence of the moral and spiritual part of 

 our being to His that we must turn for the highest 

 revelations of His nature. 



The ti'uth is that we have been too much accustomed to 

 separate speculation from revelation, instead of basing the 

 former upon the latter. And we have been inclined to 

 suppose that the being of God was rather a purely intellec- 

 tual than a practical question. AVe have attached too much 

 importance to abstract ideas, Avhereas it is impossible to 

 conceive of God apart from the universe, He has brought 

 into being — an universe which soars above the region of the 

 material to an extent which is not " dreamed of"' in most of 

 our "philosophy." Even the Greek conceptions of the best 

 age of Greek theology seem based rather on the ideas of 

 Plato tlian on those of the Old and New Testaments, 

 Accedamus ad fontes. We must go back to the days of the 

 old conceptions of God as a living force manifested in the 

 world which He has brought into being, and as an eternal^ 

 self-existent Ruler of that world for the highest good of beings^ 

 who live, think, and feel. We must conceive of the acting-^ 

 and Avorking Elohim, the Moral Avenger Shaddai, the un- 

 changeable and imperishable Jahveh or Jehovah. And we 

 are bidden to think of Him as dwelling in as well as extending 

 beyond phenomena. Modern science has confirmed this view , 

 which is the Bible view from the beginning. It has shown us, 

 more clearly than we ever saw before, the evolution of the 

 Divine purpose through the Indwelling Power, It has proved 

 more clearly than ever before that that evolution of purpose, 



* St. John vii, 17. 



