ing the universe can produce, whether it knows itself to be
immediately directed and controlled by the infinite consciousness of
Deity or whether it does not. It is clear, then, that although Deity
and divinity are essentially one, the latter is the lesser term and is
dependent for its validity upon the former. Humanity is a lesser term
still. It stands for that expression of the divine nature which we
associate with our limited human consciousness. Strictly speaking, the
human and divine are two categories which shade into and imply each
other; humanity is divinity viewed from below, divinity is humanity
viewed from above. If any human being could succeed in living a life
of perfect love, that is a life whose energies were directed toward
impersonal ends, and which was lived in such a way as to be and do the
utmost for the whole, he would show himself divine, for he would have
revealed the innermost of God.

Now let us apply these definitions to the personality of Jesus.
Granted that the devotion of Christians has been right in recognising
in Him the one perfect human life, that is, the one life which
consistently and from first to last was lived in terms of the whole,
what are we to call it except divine? In a sense, of course,
everything that exists is divine, because the whole universe is an
expression of the being of God. But it can hardly be seriously
contended that a crocodile is as much an expression of God as General
Booth. It is wise and right, therefore, to restrict the word "divine"
to the kind of consciousness which knows itself to be, and rejoices to
be, the expression of a love which is a consistent self-giving to the
universal life. "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in
God and God in him." General Booth is divine in so far as this is the
governing principle of his life. Jesus was divine simply and solely
because His life was never governed by any other principle. We do not
need to talk of two natures in Him, or to think of a mysterious
dividing line on one side of which He was human and on the other
divine. In Him humanity was divinity and divinity, humanity. Does
anyone think that this brings Jesus down to our level? Assuredly it
does not; we are far too prone to be ruled by names. To the ordinary
Christian this explanation of the divinity of Jesus may seem equivalent
to the denial of His uniqueness, but it is nothing of the kind. I have
already devoted some little spa