to the world a code of morality the like of which the world had never known before and has not known since.  He preached a short time, gathered around Him a few disciples and was crucified; His followers were scattered and nearly all of the conspicuous ones put to death—­and yet from this beginning His religion spread until thousands of millions have taken His name upon them and millions have been ready to die rather than surrender the faith that He put into their hearts.  How can you explain Christ?  It is easier to believe Him to be the Christ whose coming was foretold, the Jesus who was to save the people from their sins—­the Son of God and Saviour of the World—­than to account for Him in any other way.

To those who try to measure Him by the rules that apply to man He is incomprehensible; but take Him out of the man class and put Him in the God class and you can understand Him.  He also can be measured by the work He came to perform; it was more than a man’s task.  No man aspiring to be a God could have done what He did; it required a God condescending to be a man.

When once His divine character is admitted we have an explanation that clears away all the perplexities.  We can believe that He was conceived of the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary.  We can believe that He opened the eyes of the blind when among men—­we see Him to-day giving a spiritual vision of life to those who have known only the flesh and the pleasures that come through the flesh.  We can believe that He wrought miracles when upon earth—­we see Him so changing hearts to-day that they love the things they used to hate and hate the things they used to love.  We can even believe that at His touch life was called back to the body from which it had taken its flight—­we have seen Him take men who had fallen so low that their own flesh and blood had deserted them, lift them up, wash them and fill their hearts with a passion for service.  A Christ who can do that now could have broken the bonds of the tomb.

Volumes innumerable have been written on theological distinctions, some of which have been made the basis of sects.  The doctrine of the Trinity has been one of the storm centers of discussion for centuries.  It is not difficult for me to believe in the Trinity when I see three distinct entities in each human being—­a physical man, a mental man and a moral man.  They are so inseparable that one cannot exist here without the other, and yet they are so separate and distinct that one can be developed and the others left undeveloped.  Who has not seen a splendidly developed body with an ignorant brain to think for it and a puny spiritual life within?  A weak body and an impoverished soul are sometimes linked to a highly trained mind:  and an exalted character is sometimes found in a frail body, and even associated with a neglected intellect.  The Father, Son and Holy Ghost, three in one, present no problem that need perplex either the learned or the unlearned.  We have the evidence of the Father on every hand; the proof of the Son’s growing influence is indisputable; the witness of the Holy Ghost is to be found in the heart of every believer.  The three act in unison.