Article April 17, 1909 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from R. J. Campbell

[Universalist Leader.]

We have noted a certain finality of thought in many of the fine utterances of Jesus Christ. Behind these sayings we have noted the fact that the entire policy and program of Jesus grew out of a perfect faith in the indestructibility and power of truth. We have also noted that truth as it fell from the lips of Jesus was a certain fine and final interpretation of life, of both human and divine life, the life of God and the life of man. We have still to search for the source of this perfect confidence in truth. We may date it as a matter of biography from the end of the wilderness meditation, or we may go back another step to the ford of the Jordan and the awakening of a soul at the baptism of John. These are outward circumstances and dates of which much has been made in studying the mind of Christ. We call attention to them here simply to ignore them, or at least to discredit them as sufficient authentic data upon which to construct any psychological theory of Christ. It is best to accept the facts and rest our argument on them. It is not a question of when or where or how. It is a question of the nature of the experience of Christ, however and wherever and whenever consummated. The fact of experience in the consciousness of Jesus, in which rests this whole fabric of spiritual truth as he constructed it during his ministry, is his absolute and complete sense of the divine, his total spiritual identification with God.

[Rev. R. J. Campbell in Christian Commonwealth, London.]

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