We have been told recently, by more than one of those who profess to
have weighed and measured Christianity and found it wanting, that
religion must rest on reason, based on phenomena of this visible,
tangible world in which we are living.
Be it so. There is no need for a Christian to object. We can meet
this challenge as well as any other. We need never be careful about
choosing our own battlefield. Looking, then, at that world as we see
it, laboring heavily along in our own time—as we hear of it through
the records of the ages—I must repeat that there is no phenomenon in
it comparable for a moment to that of Christ’s life and work. The more
we canvass and sift and weigh and balance the materials, the more
clearly and grandly does his figure rise before us, as the true Head
of humanity, the perfect Ideal, not only of wisdom and tenderness and
love, but of courage also, because He was and is the simple Truth of
God—the expression, at last, in flesh and blood of what He who created
us means each one of our race to be.