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XVIII THE EVIDENCE OF DIVINITY APRIL 1918 Philip, one of the disciples of Jesus, one day affirmed that if they could only see God they would be satisfied. "Show us the Father and it sufficeth us." The Master's reply to that was, "Have I been so long a time with you and yet have you not known me, Philip?" "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." The answer is characteristic at once of His faith and method. His faith was that God is present in human life, is part of the human, that God is human. His method was to reveal God in an utterly human life. The religious leaders of His day missed the evidence because they looked for God in the extraordinary, the unusual. Jesus consistently refused this test as the root test of divinity. He refused miracles as in any sense a worthy proof of God, just as He refused the aristocratic principle of exclusivenessa special class as the revealers of God. There was nothing exclusive in Him except the exclusiveness of utter devotion to principle. He was a strong, eager Soul, mingling with the folk, taking part in the activities of His time. For Him, the treasure of a serene God-guided inner life along the line of His highest intuitions, was contained in the earthen vessel of commonplace every day living. This was the evidence that Philip had been missing, to which Jesus called his attention. NO. 8 We do not as in the days of the Master demand signs and miracles as a test of the witness of divinity. Our whole mood has changed about this, as we think, for the better. Yet one would be far from saying that the Church accepts frankly the witness of divinity within. the human, the commonplace. No, she demands certain kinds of external tests. While she will not kill, she will ostracize and cast out those who do not accept the miraculous as a proof of divinity. She easily misses the greater witness. It is still to be found in that compounding of the spiritual with the natural within the everyday affairs and events. These are the evidences that are easily missed. God has been a long time with us all and yet many have not known Him. We have looked afar and not near. We have missed the extraordinary in the ordinary. Some one has been near each one of us, manifesting God, who could say to us, "Hast thou been so long with me and yet hast thou not seen?" This was the way Christianity won its beginning. Many of the early Christians were slaves. But these little groups came together with a joy and sympathy that made divinity a practical human thing. There was buying and selling and thieving and lying and horrid cruelties all about them, but like the warm gulf stream, these little Chris |