fragmentary speeches, which we have not yet noticed, of
the most tremendous and even exhaustive import, are reported as
having fallen from the lips of Christ at different times. These
sentences, rapid and incomplete as they are in the form in which
they have reached us, do yet give us glimpses of the most
momentous character into the profoundest thoughts of his mind.
They are sufficient to enable us to generalize their fundamental
principles, and construct the outlines, if we may so speak, of his
theology, his inspired conception of God, the universe, and man,
and the resulting duties and destiny of man. We will briefly bring
together and interpret these passages, and deduce the system which
they seem to presuppose and rest upon.

Jesus told the woman of Samaria that God was to be worshipped
acceptably neither in that mountain nor at Jerusalem exclusively,
but anywhere, if it were worthily done. "God is a Spirit; and they
that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." This
passage, with others, teaches the spirituality and omnipresence of
God. Christ conceived of God as an infinite Spirit. Again,
comforting his friends in view of his approaching departure, he
said, "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so I
would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." Here he
plainly figures the universe as a house containing many
apartments, all pervaded and ruled by the Father's presence. He
was about taking leave of this earth to proceed to another part of
the creation, and he promised to come back to his followers and
assure them there was another abode prepared for them. Christ
conceived of the universe, with its innumerable divisions, as the
house of God. Furthermore, he regarded truth or the essential laws
and right tendencies of things and the will of God as identical.
He said he came into the world to do the will of Him that sent
him; that is, as he at another time expressed it, he came into the
world to bear witness unto the truth. Thus he prayed, "Father,
sanctify them through the truth: thy word is truth." Christ
conceived of pure truth as the will of God. Finally, he taught
that all who obey the truth, or do the will of God, thereby
constitute one family of brethren, one family of the accepted
children of God, in all worlds forever. "He that doeth the truth
cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest that they
are wrought in God;" "Whosoever shall do the will of God, t