The Archive · 1924

Mis Mack to the Wall

Mr. Chesterton is very powerful on all this. Here is a tremendous Passage on the very ground idea of the Gospel; ""Twice heaven has} interrupted the natural order

when heaven game to save man in meo when man was created once the awful shape of a man. That 8 good man may have his back to the wall we all know; but that God could have His back to the wall, was new. Alone of crecds} ianity added courage to the Virtues of the Creator, For the) only courage worth calling courage means that the coul passes a break-' ing point. And in the terrible

agony, He broke His heart for na."

Lee cee a That is magnificent. What a bold, yet pathetically true picture! God, "with His back So Mr. Chesterton feels no difficulty about miracles. Seeing, that in Jesus Christ, God is doing} all, that oven He can, to save us, His Son may well have been able

fe"'what atr. Chesterton means, ive the poor creature sig!

touch a blind man's yes, and

when he says, in. a much-criticized that "Sairy-tales are easier sve than science." Given, wen in the Gospel," God with His back to the wall," then "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?"

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