John the Baptist told you and all mankind who it was--that it was
The Lord. 'The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye
the way of _the Lord_!'

_The Lord_. What Lord--Which Lord? John the Baptist knew. Simeon,
Anna, Nathaniel, all righteous and faithful hearts who waited for
the salvation of the Lord, knew. The Pharisees and Sadducees did
not know. The men who wrote our Creeds, our Prayer Book, our Church
Catechism, knew. The Pharisees and the Sadducees in our day, who
fancy themselves wiser than the Creeds, and the Prayer Book, and the
Church Catechism, do not know. May God grant that we may all know,
not only with our lips, but with our hearts, our faith, our love,
our lives, who The Lord is.

Jesus Christ, the babe of Bethlehem, is The Lord. But who is He?
The Bible tells us; when we have heard what the Bible tells us we
shall be able better to understand the text. The Lord is He of whom
it is written, 'And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness.' And who is God's image and God's likeness? The New
Testament tells us--Jesus Christ. In Him man was made. He is the
Son of Man, who is in heaven--the true perfect pattern of man: but
He is also the image and likeness of God, the brightness of His
Father's glory, and the express image of His person. He is The
Lord. He is the Lord who instituted marriage, and said, 'It is not
good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help-meet for
him.' He is the Lord who said to man, 'Be fruitful and multiply:
fill the earth and subdue it.' He is the Lord who said to the first
murderer, 'Thy brother's blood crieth against thee from the ground.'
He is the Lord who talked with Abraham face to face as a man talks