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vine Spirit, coming in the love-form and giving 

 peace. So it is our deepest feelings are un- 

 speakable and our love unutterable. The Spirit 

 does not converse vocally with the millions of 

 worshippers. He does what is infinitely better, 

 diffuses through the soul a sublime conscious- 

 ness of His presence and help. 



The beauty and power of human life are in 

 its silent forces. We feel this influence. It is 

 that indefinable something that carries with it 

 the personality of the individual. Christianity 

 itself owes by far the greater part of its moral 

 power, not so much to the precepts and parables 

 of Christ as to His marvellously perfect life- 

 character. Truth is never so powerful as when 

 embedded in personality. Just here is the deep 

 secret of the incarnation. A personal manifes- 

 tation of God is the positive human need. An 

 example to follow is infinitely better than a 

 precept to heed. Precepts could be spoken 

 from the heavens at no sacrifice, but an incar- 

 nation is the highest level of sacrifice. The Di- 

 vine glory must needs be lessened and lowered, 

 softened and shaded, to bring it down to our 

 human level. So was the incarnation a neces- 

 sity. The look, the touch, the act, the word, 

 the life was what the race longed for. In the 

 Christ they had its largest realization. He was 



