Article January 13, 1906 Issue

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with contributions from Samuel A. Eliot, E. J. Helms, Thomas C. Straus

The birth in Bethlehem brought into the world a new idea of the relation of man to God. In previous ages the highest religious thought had been that God might with man, or might even be in man, or might manifest Himself in the form of man. With Jesus came to earth the new truth of a real union between God and man. He came not like the Messenger of Jehovah who appeared to Abraham and Jacob, not as a man through whom God spoke as through the prophets; but in him God was united to man—in a genuine though mystical union; and he taught that as he is one with the Father so are his disciples one with him. From the words the Father so are his disciples one with him. From the words and life of Jesus it is evident that this union is not limited to a union of love, of sympathy, of belief; but it is a union of spirit and nature by which men become in a true sense sons of God.—The Watchman.

The law is that one gathers what he sows. If he gives thought and effort to the things of the body mainly—if he lives in and caters to the senses—he will surely reap a harvest of failure, of defeat, of sorrow. Selfishness puts forth effort for self and reaps narrowness of mind, dwarfed affections, shriveled sympathies, a starved spirit. It finds unrest, dissatisfaction, barrenness, regardless of great or small outward possessions. ... That richest product of all, a Christian character, comes from the implanting of Christ's teachings and his spirit within the mind and heart and carefully nurturing them year by year. Thus the life steadily approximates "the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ."—The Universalist Leader.

"The story of Jesus is the history of every man writ large." One man was true to the divine possibilities that are in every one of us. Not by cruel substitution, not through atoning blood (God deliver us from such barbaric notions) does Jesus serve us or save us, but by leading us into the wars of sonship and brotherhood and mutual service It is for us to catch anew the significance of his teaching and the inspiration of his heroic young life, to let his spirit be born again in our hearts, to take up with new courage and confidence the pursuit of his ideals.

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