He proclaims Himself as the person who has been all along
ruling, guiding, teaching, improving men; the light who lighteth
every man who cometh into the world. He proclaims Himself by acts of
wondrous power to be the internecine foe and conqueror of every form
of sorrow, slavery, barbarism, weakness, sickness, death itself. He
proclaims Himself as One who is come to give His life for His sheep--
One who is come to restore to men the likeness in which they were
originally created, the likeness of their Father in Heaven, who
accepteth the person of no man--who causeth His sun to shine on the
evil and on the good, who sendeth His rain on the just and on the
unjust, in whose sight the meanest publican, if his only
consciousness be that of his own baseness and worthlessness, is more
righteous than the most learned, respectable, and self-satisfied
pharisee. He proclaims Himself the setter-up of a kingdom into which
the publican and the harlot will pass sooner than the rich, the
mighty, and the noble; a kingdom in which all men are to be brothers,
and their bond of union loyalty to One who spared not His own life
for the sheep, who came not to do His own, but the will of the Father
who had sent Him, and who showed by His toil among the poor, the
outcast, the ignorant, and the brutal, what that same will was like.
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