Article January 22, 1910 Issue

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William Henry Lyon

[William Henry Lyon, D.D., in Christian Register.]

His countrymen could not believe that there was anything divine in Jesus, because they knew him too well. He was the carpenter's son: they were acquainted with his mother and sisters and brothers. Faith was paralyzed by familiarity, but now, since ninetten centuries have rolled in between those days and ours, we see Jesus, not as one whom we have known, boy and man, for thirty years in the commonplaces of his home life and surroundings; we see him as a dim and spectral, almost unreal, person in that far-off land, among those strange surroundings. It is easier for us to believe in his divine nature and mission than it was for his fellow-citizens who were so close to him. The ideal loves distance and the mists of the long past.

[Pacific Baptist.]

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