January 28

God was manifest in the flesh. — 1 Tim. iii. 16.

Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he deeth the works. — JOHN xiv. 10.

THE words and works of Christ were the words and works of God. We need not wait to prove the his- toric miracles which Christ wrought upon men's bodies. We have three greater miracles of his before us to-day, his matchless character, his matchless words, his matchless influence. — the miracle of a character too unique to be invented, too pure and mighty to be human: the miracle of teachings that the world's wisest men have almost uni- versally admitted to be not only unequalled, but unap- proached: the miracle of an influence upon individuals and nations greater than has been exerted by any other per- son that ever walked the earth. These present, indisputable evidences show that Christ is able as well as willing to save me and to save the world.

Christianity is a science, not a dream, because it is estab- lished in part, like law and history, upon abundant and reliable testimony: in part, like gravitation and the round- ness of the earth upon a proved hypothesis that alone in- cludes and harmonizes all the facts: in part, like medicine and chemistry, upon experiments and experience. No hypoth- esis but that of Christianity explains how an unlettered carpenter of Nazareth has become the best known, the most beloved, and the most obeyed of any being "that e'er wore earth about him." But there is yet stronger evidence in experience. "Come and see!"

Wilbur F. Crafts.

Show us thyself, for seeing thee Do we, dear Lord, the Father see; In all thy words and works we trace The Father's heart, the Father's grace.

R. M. OFFORD.