er of the old
man day by day.

To put on the new man, is to continue our evolution, now a conscious and
deliberate evolution, on an entirely different plane. It is to subdue
the self-regarding impulses, in obedience to the movements of the Divine
life within us, which bids us deny ourselves--not some particular desire,
but our own selves--and to seek the good of others; to seek and, seeking,
surely to find, "the happiness which God Himself knows."

To put on the new man is synonymous, in St. Paul, with putting on Christ.
For He is the perfect revelation of the Divine in our humanity.

He is this perfect revelation of the Divine self-sacrifice in His
Incarnation, when "He became poor for our sakes," when "He emptied
Himself." So the Incarnation is, it may well be, but the climax of the
Divine sacrifice involved in creation, when God limited Himself by His
manifestation in "material" things; involved, we may say with greater
certainty, in the creation of man, who can, in some real sense, thwart
and hinder the Divine Will.

He is the revelation of the Divine in us, in the whole course of His
earthly life. "Christ pleased not Himself." "He went about doing good."

And, above all, He is that revelation in the supreme act of love and
sacrifice upon the Cross. "In this have we come to know what love is,
because He laid down His life for us." We have come to know love, in its
supreme manifestation of itself, for ever the test, the standard of all
true love; and in coming to know love, we have necessarily come to know
God. The Cross is the perfect self-utterance and disclosure of the Mind
of God, the crowning revelation of His Word. And in coming to know God,
we have come to know ourselves. For the true self of man is the self
conformed perfectly to the Divine Life within him.

Thus the Cross of Jesus Christ is the crowning revelation of man, as well
as of God. There, side by side with humanity marred and wrecked and
spoilt by sin, which is selfishness, we see man as God made him, as God
meant him to be, clothed with the Divine beauty and glory of
self-sacrifice.

In the Cross we see ourselves, our true selves, not as we have made
ourselves, but our real and genuine selves, as we exist in the Mind of
God.

In the light of that wonderful revelation, we can recognise that which is
Divine and Christ-like in us, that spirit which bids us seek not the
things of self, but the things of others, "even as Christ please