Article June 17, 1911 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from A. E. Garvie, R. J. Campbell

[Christian Register.]

Some individuals and some churches see more than others, and the only excuse for being which any church can offer is that it holds as a sacred deposit some truth which the world needs which is not so well stated and so well applied by any other form of religious organization. The ages have been marked by the rise and acceptance of specific forms of truth, and by the birth and activity of men and women of great spiritual endowments who have been able to make these successive revelations acceptable to their fellow-men. Some of the revelations have been more important than others. Some of the revelators have been more highly gifted than others, both in native ability and in the perception and application of truth; but these all saw in part and prophesied in part, and the truths they uttered were only half truths, good only until more light was received and better statements were made.

This statement may sound shocking to some person, who will immediately apply it to Jesus of Nazareth, and will ask if here we have not that which is final, conclusive, and to be received by all men everywhere. But while we may with great confidence assert that some of the truths affirmed by him were of the kind which may be explained, expounded, added to, and confirmed by later revelations, but that will never be repealed, we must also remember that no word of Jesus comes to us directly from him; that we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that it is evident enough today that those who claimed to stand nearest to him and to represent him most accurately did not fully understand him; indeed, that there are many living today who stand closer in sympathy to the real Jesus and his thought than did they of his own family and the circle of discipleship.

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