This name “Father” is a new name. It is a name _no one but Jesus could have revealed to men_. We could never have known God the Father save through the Incarnate Son. Men only saw God _from the outside_. They only judged Him by His works. They were impressed by His greatness, His wisdom, His power, as revealed to them in the wonders of earth and sea and sky, and they named Him accordingly. But men felt that, after all, wisdom and power and might were only _parts_ of God’s ways; they felt there was a secret about God which they had not been told, and they had to confess that, strain as they would, there were clouds and thick darkness about Him through which no eye could pierce. But here we get a view of God, if I may so speak, _from the inside_. Here you have God’s heart laid bare. Here you have light thrown upon the inmost nature of God. The secret hidden from prophet and psalmist and seer is here declared to the world in this name “Father.” Who could have given God this name? Who could have discovered this grand secret? Who could have thrown this light upon the Divine nature? Only Jesus—only the Son who from eternity had lain in the bosom of the Father. The knowledge of God, _the Father_, is only to be gained through the Incarnate Son. “No man knoweth the Father save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son shall reveal Him.” And it seems to me that one of the chief ends for which Christ came to earth was just to tell us this new name, and so to bring sunshine into our souls and hope into our lives. In Bethlehem, in Nazareth, in Galilee, in the garden of Gethsemane, on the Cross of Calvary, Jesus was spelling out for us this new name, revealing to us that God is more than wisdom, more than power, more than justice; that God above and beyond everything else is Love. So the very opening phrase of this “Pearl of Prayers” brings us the best news ever whispered into the ears of men. It tells us that love is at the heart of all things. It tells us that God is our Father and we are His children.