as said, "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father."

At least, such is the doctrine of St. John. He tells us that the Word,
who was God, was made flesh, and dwelt in his land and neighbourhood; and
that he and his fellows beheld His glory; and saw that it was the glory
of the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. And then,
in the next chapter, he goes on to tell us how that glory was first
manifested forth--by turning water into wine at a marriage feast. On the
truth of the story, I say simply, in passing, that I believe it fully and
literally; as I do also St. John's assertions about our Lord's Divinity.
But I only wish to point out to you why I called this miracle the crucial
experiment, which proved God's goodness to be identical with that which
we call (and rightly) goodness in man. It is by the seeming
insignificance thereof, by the seeming non-necessity, by the seeming
humbleness of its circumstances, by the seeming smallness of its results,
issuing merely (as far as Scripture tells us, and therefore as far as we
need know, or have a right to imagine) in the giving of a transitory and
unnecessary physical pleasure. In short, by the very absence of that
Dignus deo vindice nodus, that knot which only a God could untie, which
heathens demanded ere a god was allowed to interfere in the plot of a
tragedy; which too many who call themselves Christians demand before the
living God is allowed to interfere in that world in which without Him not
a sparrow falls to the ground. In a moral case of this kind, if you will
consider, that which seems least is often the greatest. That which seems
the lowest, because the simplest and meanest manifestation of a moral
law, may be--probably is--the deepest, the highest, the most universal.

Life is made up of little things, say the practically wise, and they say
true, for our Lord says so likewise. "He that is faithful in that which
is least is faithful also in much." If you look on morality, virtue,
goodness, holiness, sanctification--call it what you will--as merely the
obligation of an EXTERNAL law, you will be tempted to say, "Let me be
faithful to it in its greater and more important cases, and that is
enough. The pettier ones must take care of themselves, I have not time
enough to attend to them, and God will not, it may be, require them of
me." But if the morality, goodness, holiness be in you what it was in
Christ, wi