Article March 31, 1917 Issue

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with contributions from Henry C. Applegarth, W. Quay Roselle, Joseph Fort Newton, Percy Pegler, Horace T. Houf

[Rev. Henry C. Applegarth, D.D., in Record of Christian Work]

Why did Paul say that the mystery revealed by God to the Gentiles was "Christ in you, the hope of glory"? Why did he not use the name Jesus? The name Jesus is peculiar to the gospels. In them Christ is seldom mentioned. At Cæsarea Philippi Peter says, "Thou art the Christ." But Jesus is the name of this divine one in the gospels. The "angel of the Lord" said to Joseph, "Thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins." It is the emphasis upon his humanity. Jesus is not the same in the beginning, yesterday, today, and forever. He is mutable, changeable, and you must predicate it of him. He was born a baby. He grew "in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man." Evidently he was just such a boy at Nazareth as his neighbor Simon was. He unfolded in the glory of Deity, and by the inner consciousness he gradually came to the knowledge that in him dwelt "all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." That is the mystery of the incarnation. That is the wonderful utterance of Peter in his sermon on the day of Pentecost: "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ."

Jesus was a being of time, while Christ is forever. Away back in the infinities of God, Christ lay in the bosom of his Father. He came, and he came to expression in Jesus.

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