Reason may show us many things, gut revelation has also something to show us. And in the shadow of such a disaster we must look beyond all lesser kinds of revelation to the event which has gathered up all human tragedy into itself. We must think of the beloved Son on the cross of Calvary and see God there. Wa must look at the earthquake "keeping our eyes on Jesus," the pledge of God in the midst of the world's evil, bearing its sorrows with us... Just now it is "the weakness in Godhead seek," it is the truth that God ig the power to bear and to suffer as well as to ordain and command, that we want to be sured Much of our popular theology has a Mohammedan tinge, identifying God with the power behind natural events rather than' in the victories of human charac' ter. It misses the Gospel of the Incarnation. We may be sure that doctrine is not intended to turn our conception of God into a mystery of numbers and standards, as the Athanasian creed might suggest to some, but to prove thai God is in the fight against evil, in the mystery of suffering, by the bearing of the inexplicable cross.
The trouble is that men will
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