September 29

The only begotten Son . . . he hath declared him. JOHN I. 18.

All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him. — LUKE x. 22.

WHO is the Father? We know not. He is the focus of all that is high and good.

Who is the Son? We know not; the focus of all that is divine in human history and in the history of each of us.

What is the relation of the Father and the Son? Open, each to each.

What is the knowledge here spoken of, — a thing of definitions? No, of consciousness. It is a fellowship with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. Through it the love wherewith the Father loves the Son is in us, and he is in us. It is life eternal. It comes to us through God's commandments, given in love and accepted in simplicity.

And what is the face which God through the Son turns to us? Sympathy with childlike men; willingness to declare his blessed name: promise of an infinitude of experience.

Edward J. Horn

But what to those who find? ah, this

Nor tongue nor pen can show;

The love of Jesus, what it is,

None but his loved ones know.

BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX (translated by Edward Caswell).