Then turn from that dry collection of words, words, to this first chapter of John on whose verses the dew still seems to be shining ud the sun seems to rise avail with every reading. With what, quiet intensity John turns" his back on words. There is so much that might bb said on the greatest. of all subjects. He declares Inter on that "the world itself could not contain all the, books that might be But with the utmost tension of though he turns to the Word-made-
But what did he mean by First of all it suggests that he was struck by the sinlessness of this man from whom he could not keep his eyes. That is why, accending to Matthew, he was startled at the idea of administering to him a baptism of repentance. Every day '2 lamb was offered up to God at the temple both morning ami evening because it is of all creatures the most unlike the average man suggesting the innocence he has fast. The: fox," the tiger and the Jape bring. us painful suggestions of ourselves, but until Christ came it Iwas hot" even an-aspiration to be!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.