To be near unto God - pagina 139

detached from his personal appearance. The body discerned, but is not ignored that the soul may be Jesus is taken as he was, appeared, spoke and acted. One appearance is faced, one perfect whole, one mystery. Even as among us there are times when a person becomes radiant and allows his soul to shine through his face, in his eye, about his lips, in his word and in his act, so that through the outward appearance the person within is seen so it was with Jesus, only far stronger, and all the time. His appearance must have been overwhelming. The impression which he made must have been full of wonder. When we think of the soulfulness in his holy eye, the changes of expression in his face, and his modulated, sympathetic voice, it is felt at once that his bodily appearance was no hindrance to reach the Divine in him, but was rather the vehicle by which to approach It was as though, through Jesus, God himself it. came out into thq visible world, inviting and alluring all who saw him to admire and to worship God in him. If at the time of Jesus' sojourn on the earth, man had been what he was before the once fall in paradise, the perfect God would at have been recognized in Jesus. But with the blinded eye of the soul sinful man could not do

—

this; it

was impossible.

God was

there in Jesus,

but the world could not see him. The eye of the soul had been bandaged. And only when God himself had removed this bandage could

man

see

God

in Jesus. The eye of

the soul is not something apart from the soul. It is rather the sum total of all conits powers by which it perceives, becomes 13.5

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