Article July 26, 1924 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Oliver Quick, Hugh V. White, King, A. E. Anderson, Robert Quillen

[Rev. Oliver Quick, in the Modern Churchman, Oxford, England, November, 1923]

The word "Father" must have seemed to our Lord to sum up and express better than any other the full and fundamental reality of the divine nature. And the leading suggestion of fatherhood to Jewish ears must unquestionably have been kindliness and love. ... Such a relation of family affection was undoubtedly connoted by the promise, "I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son." And our Lord was purposely making theological use of the natural feelings of the Jewish family when he said, "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?" If he spoke of God exclusively by the name of Father, he must have intended to convey, in more concrete form, substantially the same truth as that which John expressed in those three tremendous words, God is Love.

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