Christ Himself, in the words before us, expects that those who have
listened to His teaching and seen His life should need no other evidence
that God is in Him and He in God--should not require to go down and back
to the preliminary evidence of miracles which may serve to attract
strangers. And, obviously, we get closer to the very heart of any
person, nearer to the very core of their being, through their ordinary
and habitual demeanour and conversation than by considering their
exceptional and occasional acts. And it is a great tribute to the power
and beauty of Christ's personality that it actually is not His miracles
which solely or chiefly convince us of His claims upon our confidence,
but rather His own character as it shines through His talks with His
disciples and with all men He met. This, we feel, is the Person for us.
Here we have the human ideal. The characteristics here disclosed are
those which ought everywhere to prevail.

But the crowning evidence of Christ's unity with the Father can be
enjoyed only by those who share His life. The conclusive evidence which
for ever scatters doubt and remains abidingly as the immovable ground of
confidence in Christ is our individual acceptance of His Spirit.
Christ's life in God, His identification with the ultimate source of
life and power, is to become one of the unquestioned facts of
consciousness, one of the immovable data of human existence. We shall
one day be as sure of His unity with the Father, and that in Christ our
life is hid in God, as we are sure that now we are alive. Faith in
Christ is to become an unquestioned certainty. How then is this
assurance to be attained? It is to be attained when we ourselves as
Christ's agents do greater works than He Himself did, and when by the
power of His spiritual presence with us we live as He lived.

Christ calls our attention to this with His usual formula when about to
declare a surprising but important truth: "Verily, verily, I say unto
you, He that believeth on Me shall do greater works than these."
Beginning with such evidence and such trust as we can attain, we shall
be encouraged by finding the practical strength which comes of union
with Christ. It speedily became apparent to the disciples that our Lord
meant what He said when He assured them that they would do greater works
than He had done. His miracles had amazed them and had done much good.
And yet, after all, they were necessarily very limited in number, i