Christ’s great Revelation was not given in a book, not in a history or a treatise, but in a Life and Death. He shewed the world a Man who knew not Self, and He also shewed it the Force that came from God. Men will realize this Revelation in different ways in different ages; part may come to light at one time, part at another. Sayings which have long lain hardly noticed are one day found to be keys to unlock a treasure, and give insight beyond what we dreamt of. But besides this Revelation, personal to individuals, broad Truths are conveyed which we should not otherwise possess. Some of the leading Truths are these. That Jesus came from the Father. That the Father loved men who believed in Him, and owned them as sons, and sent into their hearts(13) a filial spirit which should enable them to lay hold more firmly of this Revelation. Christ tells them that He came to manifest God to the world,(14) and that, whether they chose to believe it or not, the kingdom of God was drawn nigh to them.(15) He tells them that to know God is eternal life,(16) and that they who are counted worthy will attain a resurrection to such a life.(17) Above all he tells them—and this is the very charter of the Christian Church, without which her Doctrines would be only a set of notions, destitute of real vital power—“Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.”(18) There is no clashing with human knowledge here, nothing that can tie the hands of the enquirer. The advance in spiritual knowledge is not brought about, simply by the communication of a new truth from without, which had never been dreamt of before: men feel rather as if they were reminded of something they must once have known. There appears, if I may so say, a tenderness of God in dealing with man, a carefulness so to reveal himself as not to obliterate a man’s own personality, but to leave him to feel that any resolution he has reached is his own, arrived at, no doubt, by listening to God’s prompting; without such prompting superseding the action of his proper self. No two men represent God to themselves quite in the same way: He was not the same for Peter that He was for John.