can in this world, for in God no help is to be found.

And how shall we escape that danger?

I do not think we shall escape it, if we stop short at the text. We
must go on from the Old Testament and let the New explain it. We
must believe what Moses tells us: but we must ask St. John to show
us more than Moses saw. Moses tells us that God created the heavens
and the earth; St. John goes further, and tells us what that God is
like; how he saw Christ, the Word of God, by whom all things were
made, and without whom nothing was made that is made. And what was
he like? He was the brightness of his Father's glory, and the
express image of his person. And what was that like? was there any
darkness in him--meanness, grudging, cruelty, changeableness, deceit?
No. He was full of grace and truth. Grace and truth: that is what
Christ is; and therefore that is what God is.

There was another aspect of him, true; and St. John saw that
likewise. And so awful was it that he fell at the Lord's feet as he
had been dead.

But the Lord was still full of grace and truth; still, however awful
he was, he was as full as ever of love, pity, gentleness. He was the
Lamb that was slain for the sins of the world, even though that Lamb
was in the midst of the throne from which came forth thunderings and
lightnings, and judgments against the sins of all the world.
Terrible to wrong, and to the doers of wrong: but most loving and
merciful to all true penitents, who cast themselves and the burden of
their sins before his feet; perfect justice and perfect Love,--that
is God. That is the maker of this world. That is he who in the