A Tour of the Missions: Observations and ConclusionsStrong, Augustus Hopkins
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A Tour of the Missions: Observations and Conclusions
Strong, Augustus Hopkins
East Asia -- Description and travel; Missions
be soaring instead of creeping, and would end by gladly confessing that
he who met them on the way in their first experience was none other than
the omnipresent Christ, whom Paul describes as God manifest in the
flesh, in whom dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. They
would also learn, with Peter, that Scripture is the work and word of the
preexistent Christ.
Because this experience of sin and of Christ is knowledge, it is
material for science, for science is only unified knowledge. I do not
deny that it is knowledge peculiar to the Christian. The princes of
physics and literature and government have not known it. It is not the
wisdom of this world, but it is better, even the very wisdom of God. I
glory in Christian theology, as the science that will last, when all
systems of merely physical science have passed away. For the man who has
been saved by Christ has knowledge of him who is Creator, Upholder, and
Life of all. I do not hesitate to say that the only safe interpreter of
physical nature is the true Christian, for it is Christ "in whom all
things consist." The true Christian is the only safe interpreter of
history, for it is Christ who "upholds all things by the word of his
power." And so, the true Christian is the only safe interpreter of
Scripture, for it is Christ whose Spirit in the prophets "testified
beforehand of his sufferings, and of the glories that should follow
them." In him who is the Lord of all "are all the treasures of wisdom
and knowledge hidden." Only when one is joined to Christ, can he
understand the evolutionary process through which Christ has led the
human race, or understand the Bible which constitutes the historical
record of that process. With the Psalmist we may say, "In thy light
shall we see light."
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