Christ Speaks for a Whole World.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, 

and the Word was God." John 1:1

Do not permit these proud days to deceive you. The

time's not far away when you will feel that it is not in

the power of rhetoric or passion to add anything to the

words of Jesus Christ. The metaphysician may secretly

regret that the Nazarene did not discourse like a Plato

or a Locke; the poet may wish that the Son of Man had

said more about land, sea and sky, about opening spring-

time or the falling leaf; the Calvinist, Arminian and Trinitarian

may wish they could find in the Lord’s discourse a system

that should more fully shadow forth their own; and dev-

otees of science may feel at times that the ‘‘ Cosmos” of

Humboldt surpasses the simple story of the Gospels.

But these longings and complaints are only the result of

narrow specializations. Christ spoke for a whole world,

for the times of its greatest need; and the wish of the

specialist is engulfed in the wide, infinite wish of man-

kind. Our wishes are the style of time; Christ’s manner

the style of eternity. 

                                         -Pearls from Many Seas