them to belong. None have ever conceived God more highly than
they who said, "God is love," and these men set Jesus side by side with
God. The evangelists do not attempt to describe what He was like; they
let us hear Him and watch Him, as He lived in the memories of those who
had been with Him; and He makes His own impression. The crowning tribute
is that we have no loftier adjective in our vocabulary than
"Christlike."

(3) _A singular victory_--a victory over the world and sin and death.

Jesus believed in and proclaimed a new order of things in the world--the
Kingdom of God--in which His Father's will should be realized. It was an
order in which men should live in love with one another and with God, in
which justice, kindness and faithfulness should prevail in all
relationships, and in which all God's children's needs should be
supplied, their maladies healed, their wrongs righted, their lives made
full. This Kingdom was already in the earth in Himself and in the new
life He succeeded in creating in those who followed Him. It found itself
opposed by physical forces that were injurious to humanity; and these He
met fearlessly, sleeping in a storm so violent as to terrify His
fisherman companions; and, what is more, He commanded these forces for
His Father's purpose in a way that amazed His first followers and is
still amazing to us. The reports of His mighty works have to be
carefully scrutinized by historical scholars, and no doubt the
historicity of some of them is much more fully attested than that of
others; but when every allowance is made for the ideas of a
prescientific age in which miracles were relatively frequent, and for
the possible growth of the marvellous elements in the tradition, enough
remains to show that here was a Personality whose power cannot be
limited by our usual standards of human ability. Judged by past or
present conceptions of what is natural, His works were supernatural; He
Himself regarded them as the breaking into the world through Him of the
new order that was to be. He discouraged men's craving for the
physically miraculous, and thought little of the faith in Him produced
by its display; but there can be no question of His extraordinary
control of physical forces for the aims of His Kingdom. It was, however,
in the moral conflict between the Divine Order and things as they were,
that He saw the decisive collision, and faced it with heroic faith in
His Father's victory. When the domi