Article January 8, 1910 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

[Universalist Leader.]

When we read the story of the baptism by John, the retreat to the wilderness, the controversy with the Pharisees, the trial before Pilate, the agony of Gethsemane, the martyrdom of Calvary, what are we to think of these? It all looks very real. The central figure appears like a real man. He seems to be tried and tempted as we are. The simple greatness of his gentle, heroic life looks like the dream of our soul of what a true, Godlike man might be. But is it real, or is it a piece of acting? Is this central figure of flesh and blood, or is he a puppet show, a manikin manipulated from some unseen somewhere? If he is only a brave show, an actor whose past was all arranged for him, a metaphysical mystery of the trinity going through the motions of a piece prepared for him, then he cannot be interpreted to us in the terms of our own experience.

[Christian World.]

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