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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 making 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 ia 

 time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in 

 these last days spoken* imto 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 world, 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 



