be led by Him into
the Father's presence. In this His ministry resembled that of the
great forerunner, who led His disciples into the presence of the
Bridegroom, content to decrease if only He might increase. The
Master's answer was, however, widely different from John's. The
forerunner pointed to Jesus as He walked, and said, "Behold the Lamb of
God"; Jesus pointed to Himself, and said, "I and My Father are One; to
have seen Me is to have seen the Father; to have Me is to possess the
Father."

It troubled the Lord greatly that He had been so long time with them,
and yet they had not known Him; that they had not realized the source
of His words and works; that they had concentrated their thought on
Him, instead of passing, as He meant them to do, from the stream to the
source, from the die to the seal, from the beam of the Divine Glory to
its Sun. He bade them, therefore, from that moment realize that they
knew and had seen the Father in knowing and seeing Himself. Not more
surely had the Shechinah dwelt in the tabernacle of old, than did it
indwell His nature, though too thickly shrouded to be seen by ordinary
and casual eyes.

Let us get help from this. Many complain that they know Christ, pray
to Christ, are conscious of Christ, but that the Father is far away and
impalpable. They are therefore straining after some new vision or
experience of God, and undervaluing the religious life to which they
have already attained. It is a profound mistake. To have Jesus is to
have God; to know Jesus is to know God; to pray to Jesus is to pray to
God. Jesus is God manifest in the flesh. Look up to Him even now from
this printed page, and say, "My Lord and my God."

Jesus is not simply an incarnation of God in the sense in which, after
the fashion of the Greek mythology, gods might come down in the
likeness of men, adopting a disguise which they would afterward cast
aside; Jesus is God. All the gentle attributes of His nature are
God's; and all the strong and awful attributes of power, justice,
purity, which we are wont to associate with God, are His also.

Happy is the moment when we awake to realize that in Jesus we have God
manifest and present; to know this is the revelation of the Father by
the Son, of which our Saviour spoke in Matt. xi. 27.

III. A GLIMPSE INTO THE LORD'S INNER LIFE.--This Gospel is the most
lucid and profound treatise in existence on His inner life. It is the
revelation of the princip