men,
consider how marvellous that such a One, whom the heavens cannot
contain, who overflows their limits, asking for room that He may dwell,
will yet become the resident of our nature!

_Its motive is Love._--"The Father will love him." This is wonderful!
The more so as we are told that His love toward us is identical with
that which He has toward our Lord. Speaking of those who shall believe
through His apostles' words, Jesus said, "That the world may know that
Thou lovest them even as Thou lovest Me." That God should condescend
to think about our planet, which is as a leaf in the forest of being!
That He should deign to regard mankind, who, in size at least, are less
than a colony of ants that may have built their home at the foot of the
Himalaya! That He should pity our race! This were much. But that He
should _love_ the world, that He should _love_ individuals belonging to
our race, that He should love them with the love He has toward the
Only-begotten--we could not have believed this unless we had been
assured by the lips of infallible Truth. But the supreme revelation
which towers above the rest, like some great banyan tree amid the
slender growth of the Indian forest, is that the Creator should indwell
and find a mansion in the heart of His creatures.

_It is dual, yet one._--"We will come." We! Then, is there more than
One? Who is this who dares class Himself with the supreme God within
the limits of a common pronoun, that challenges the love and trust and
obedience of man, that poses as King? The meekest and humblest of men.
The One who, above all others of the human family, seemed to have least
to disturb or darken the incidence of the rays of truth upon His soul;
who has cast a light on all the dark problems of human life, and could
not possibly have been deceived in respect to His own nature. His
conceptions of the holiness, greatness, and purity of God have stood
out in unrivalled magnificence from all others whatsoever; yet it is He
who couples in one small word His humanity with Deity, His meekness
with the Infinite Majesty, His personality with God's. Is not this
proof enough that He was conscious of His Divine nature? Is not the
fact of His not counting it robbery to be equal with God evidence that
He was God? What can they make of this _We_, who hold that He was only
a good man and a great teacher? Good men are humble men, great
teachers know best their own limitations!

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