their inmost depth centres of conscience and will. The meaning of the universe is the personality of God; He is the universal, all-pervading consciousness; He is the omnipresent Spirit. Whoever would tell us of the soul of God and the soul of man must himself be a soul. Jesus the supreme human soul gives us the sovereign vision of God; Jesus the perfect man reveals to us the actual and the ideal in all men. The glory of God, his love shines in the face of Christ; the ideal for the world of men shines there; therefore, He is revelation in its highest character.

2. Jesus is the great Revealer because He sets God's original order in light. The constitution of our human world is the original fact; revelation is secondary. God's order in human life is the ultimate reality; Jesus as Revealer sets this reality in the sunlight of his teaching and his spirit where it can be seen of all men. It is like one waiting for the full disclosure of some great mountain, a Kinchingunga, for example. Day after day, it may be, the eager traveler waits; now the clouds lift and again they settle down, here a crag, there an outline, and farther on a peak, and once more the view is incomplete; but the hour at length arrives, perhaps at sunset, when the clouds are all rolled away, and against the warm splendor and infinite peace of evening the great mountain stands out in entire, untrou

bled, and unshadowed revelation. It is now revealed; it has existed from of old; under the cloud and without the cloud it is the same; it has forms, features, a character, and a reality of its own; the lifting of the veil, the revelation, only shows it as it has always been. So with our human world; men are by creation in an order of sonhood to God and of brotherhood one to another. This vast spiritual structure is hidden by the thick and persistent clouds of animal instinct and interest. Often one would not dream that in men there was a divine reality under that terrible cloud. But the day of the Lord comes to those who wait. Then the clouds lift and break and roll away; and the mountain of the Lord, his work from the beginning when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy, stands forth indubitable, resplendent, divine.

3. Jesus is the great Revealer because He shows us that man's spirit and man's spirit in obedience to the will of God are two different orders of life. Man's moral world is one thing; that world aware of itself and obedient to the heavenly vision is another. The order, the plan of man's world, embedded in man's nature, is God's original, independent creation; here revelation cannot add or alter or take away. The new creation comes from God by the will of man, and

here revelation becomes the fountain of new life. This new creation is no longer the mere design of the cathedral; it is the building rising in accordance with the design. Repentance, revolt from the domination of brute instincts, the sense of the spiritual order in the soul, the clear consciousness that man cannot live by bread alone, that he needs the word of God for his humanity's food, and the force of this revealing word in his will, are the notes of this new creation. When the lost son came to himself, when his vision of his father and his father's home set once again his original human nature in its true light, then he began his return, then he arose and came to his father. He began at once the new creation in accord with his nature as a human being, and the new vision of himself was a creative power.

4. Jesus is the great Revealer because in Him we gain some insight into the ways by which the Eternal Mind has in all ages invaded, illumined, sustained, and inspired the mind of man. Even now men sing as of old:

"How precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them,

If I should count them they are more in number than the sand:

When I awake I am still with thee."

Somehow men have been convinced that their thoughts at their best have carried in them, as

clouds carry the sunlight, the thoughts of God. A wayfarer lights upon a certain place, tarries there all night because the sun was set, takes one of the stones of the place, puts it under his head for a pillow, and lays himself down in that place to sleep. And he dreams of a ladder set on the earth and reaching unto heaven and of the passage from the mind of God to his spirit of the divine purpose of his existence. He awakes to find that place a Bethel, a house of God, and the earth where he is a sojourner the gate of heaven. Somehow this dream has repeated itself in unbroken succession in the minds of men, till our human world has come to mean Bethel, till immensity has become the sanctuary of the Most High. This dream of an ancient pilgrim and fugitive has fulfilled itself in our Lord's vision of the open heaven, in his consciousness that the universe is his Father's house.

5. Jesus is the great Revealer because He enables men to distinguish between their own thoughts, pure and simple, and their thoughts with God's thoughts in them. The Sermon on the Mount is such a showing; the builder upon sand and the builder upon rock illustrate the distinction. In the light of this distinction, we read the great past; when we listen to these words of a nameless Psalmist, we know that we are listening to the word of God:

"The Lord is merciful and gracious,

Slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness.

He hath not dealt with us after our sins

Nor rewarded us after our iniquities;

For as the heavens are high above the earth

So great is his loving kindness toward them that fear him.

As far as the east is from the west

So far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
Like as a father pitieth his children

So the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
For he knoweth our frame;

He remembereth that we are dust."

Somehow we know that through these thoughts of the prophet we attain unto the thoughts of our God: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." Somehow religious men have felt that the poet Daniel was uttering a principle of universal application when he said:

"Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man.'

When we consider the sand on the beach, the tempest on the great deep, the flower by the wayside, the mountain in the background, the lights and shadows upon it, the noonday sun shining upon it, and the winding silver stream that binds it to the sea; when we recognize a father or mother, when we look into the soul of a beloved