But now what I want to say is that in the long run there is 2 vital amd inseparable connexion between the qualities of whiteness and of glistering. It is perfectly ex-amplified in the life of Jesus Christ. our Lord. We speak of Him as spotless and sinless; but how inadequate are these words of negation! When we speak of the truth. fulness of Jesus we do not mean verbal veracity, as of one innocent of the arts of irony or exaggeration, but a challenging, commanding authority, a power to inspire or subdue. So with the purity of Jesus. We do not think of it in terms of abstinences and continent cies only. It was like a refiner's fire that scorched the professed guardians of the people's moralls.
Once more consider the meekness of Jesus. There was nothing sapless about that. It was always instinct with passion, vibrant with love. Magnanimity would have been a nearer word, only it had been misappropriated by the Creeks. The virtue of Jesus was attractive, his holiness was _bedignant, his character was white and glistering. And the perfect union of these two qualities in the Lord Jesus Christ assures us that in the ultimate aspect of things real transgression is never sparkling true piety is never pallid, pure whiteness deepens to lustre and permanent lustre depends upon whiteness.
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