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and authority, and argumentation to the solid rock of experience. If you love nature and humanity, you thereby enter into and reproduce the creative love of the Father. You live a life which you did not create, but which you know is good, and infinite in range. Nature has no metes and bounds; the claims of our fellow men, embodied in the moral ideal, have no limits. The career open to love is infinite. It is the life of the Father, which each conscious child of his is privileged to share. No proof less than the actual experience of this life of love could reveal God to any man. Yet every man who has this experience is as sure of a divine life in the world as he is of his own existence. The filial experience has made the Father manifest.

The principle of Jesus' Way is, therefore, that there is one God, the Creator of the world and the Father of our spirits; of whom all natural beauty is the outward expression, and all moral duty the inward voice. To live in grateful adoration of all the beauty and beneficence the outer world contains, in sensitive obedience to every claim of human sympathy, is to walk in Jesus' Way. This is the one central principle which runs through Jesus' scattered teachings, the bond which binds them all together in the unity of a Way which is original, unique, supreme, divine.

That there are tares as well as wheat in the field of the world; that there are falling towers that crush and cruel men who kill, Jesus did not

deny. Yet, because there was no trace of hate or malice in his own pure heart, he refused to believe that these accidents and crimes were evidence of any malice in what we should call the Father's motive; however they might be permitted as incidental in a universe where individuals were to be intrusted with the perilous prerogatives of self-consciousness and free will. In all this wanton wickedness he saw the working of a hostile principle. "An enemy hath done this." Yet the enemy was one which it was his mission to conquer and dislodge. Indeed, through cheerful acceptance of the burdens which human sin brings upon the world, Jesus revealed in himself, and communicated to his followers, that element of sacrifice which is

the deepest and tenderest quality of the Father's nature; and in the lives of Jesus and his true followers is the most complete and adequate revelation of the Father's heart.

CHAPTER II

THE SON: THE INCARNATION OF

THE WAY

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