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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...recognition of the holiness of "inorganic nature," the only honour we pay to the "inert creation." But neither difficulty nor unwillingness to give Himself Iconoclasm. Iconoclasm. Incarnation. perfectly and wholly, alike through body and through spirit, is on His side, but on ours. Do we say that the body and flesh must be fed, and thus be made into His body? Yea; and it was bodily healing also which He did when yet at a distance from the sufferer, and so without touch or contact like unto ours. Melchizedek seems a perfect instance of the two realities, each given full independent value. But though "without father or mother" he is infinitely more real to us in the sense of substantial value than the thousand thousand "real" flesh and blood men who have no such eternal reality about them. Incarnation. May it not be put thus (though, of course, but a fragment of the complete truth), that in Christianity alone evil is met and conquered only and always by good; and that there alone God is seen, great enough, as it were, to reveal Himself to us in a Babe lying in a manger (born even among beasts), and in the Crucified How unspeakably higher than our highest ideas of human grandeur is that majesty which can bear such a test--which can dispense so absolutely with the outward signs of dignity and power! And in all other religions love is sooner or later exhausted, or it is degraded, or is only one of many equal things. In ours, God is love; and man's conception both of God and of love is thus infinitely raised. Our natural idea is, that sooner or later evil that has not yet yielded to good, must be met (it cannot be conquered) by evil. But Christ lifted up on the Cross and drawing all men unto Him, shows us...