Christianity: The Logic of Creation

PERSONAL HOMAGE tippers, though their talk be only of the dreariest millinery and mud of things, are yet more lumi- nous than evangelists and apostles. No doubt all spiritual truth falls at last into the historic plane, in order that it may become cognizable in that disguise to unspiritual or natural eyes. And the Divine creation, redemption, and providence, obey of course this universal law. But how base must we deem the intelligence, which insists upon view- ing the spiritual truth as identical with its historic ultimation ! How base, in other words, must we consider that spiritual state which regards a Divine operation as observing strictly personal limits , or shutting itself up to the experience of an individual bosom . Thus I have often been checked, in speak- ing of the Incarnation as a scientific verity, by the suggestion that “ the Incarnation took place only in the Christ, and could be true therefore only of his experience.”