unknown GOD? The venture of Christian faith consists in staking all
upon the assumption, the hypothesis abundantly verified in the life's
experience of such as make it, that the character of the unknown GOD
is revealed in Christ: that the love of Christ is the expression of
the love of GOD, the sufferings of Christ an expression of the
suffering of GOD, the triumph of Christ an expression of the eternal
victory of GOD over all the evil and wickedness which mars the wonder
of His creation. If we were to look primarily at the life of Nature,
we might be tempted to say that GOD was cruel. If we considered
certain of the works of man, we might be tempted to conclude that GOD
was devilish. Looking at Jesus we gain the assurance that GOD is Love.
We behold "the light of the knowledge of the glory of GOD in the face
of Jesus Christ," and we are satisfied.

And so we come to Jesus--the Prophet that is come into the world: and
what we shall find, if we will suffer Him to work His work in us, is
this. He will change our world for us, and will transform it. He will
redeem our souls, so that there shall be in us a new birth, a new
creation. He will show us the Father, and it shall suffice us. He will
set our feet on the road to Calvary, and we shall rejoice to be
crucified with Him. He will convert us--He will turn our lives inside
out, so that they shall have their centre in GOD, and no longer in
ourselves. He will bestow on us the Spirit without measure, so that we
shall be sons and daughters of the Highest. And we shall know that we
are of GOD, even though the whole world lieth in wickedness. And we
shall know that the Son of GOD is come, and that He hath given us an
understanding, that we may know Him that is true, and that we are in
Him that is true, even in His Son Jesus Christ.