Revealing Christ by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Mar 15, 1906

Revealing Christ

By Editor

Editorial

Revealing Christ

It is a part of the plan of salvation that humanity shall be the channel through which divinity shall reach and bless humanity. He who declared, “I am the Light of the world,” said also to his disciples, “Ye are the light of the world,” because the light of his life was to shine in them. It is, then, the one aim of the true Christian to reveal Christ to the world. “Humanity has in itself no light. Apart from Christ, we are like an unkindled taper, like the moon when her face is turned away from the sun; we have not a single ray of brightness to shed into the darkness of the world. But when we turn toward the Sun of Righteousness, when we come in touch with Christ, the whole soul is aglow with the brightness of the divine presence. . . . As Christ is the channel for the revelation of the Father, so are we to be the channel for the revelation of Christ. While our Saviour is the great source of illumination, forget not, O Christian, that he is revealed through humanity. God's blessings are bestowed through human instrumentality. Christ himself came to the world as the Son of man. Humanity, united to the divine nature, must touch humanity. Every individual disciple of the Master is heaven's appointed channel for the revelation of God to men. Angels of glory wait to communicate through you heaven's light and power to souls that are ready to perish. . . . Christ accepts, O so gladly! every human agency that is surrendered to him. He brings the human into union with the divine, that he may communicate to the world the mysteries of incarnate love.” What a privilege is thus bestowed! What a responsibility is thus laid upon the professed disciples of Jesus! “Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah.”

Digestion and Divinity

In the effort to establish the modern dogma of the immanence of God in man there are some who claim that the so-called miracle of digestion shows “the most wonderful manifestation of divinity working in humanity,” and the findings of scientists are adduced as the demonstration of this claim. Has it ever occurred to these dispensers of new light that the process of digestion is just as inexplicable in the case of the lower order of animals, as the horse or the hog, as in the case of the most beautiful representative of the human family? But does this fact prove that Deity dwells incarnate in these lower animals? This is only one illustration of the way in which the spiritual is brought down to the plane of the natural in the professed effort to exalt all things in the natural world to the plane of the spiritual. This particular teaching is the first step toward the denial of the supernatural birth of our Lord, toward the whole destructive work of modern rationalism. The doctrine of the incarnation can not be proved by modern science. It is the mystery of godliness.