God translated

Introduction

It has been my custom each year to preach on Sunday mornings a series of sermons following some trunk line of thought. The sermons in this volume are chosen from the series of last year which were studies in the Gospel of John. They sought to find the simpler and more human interpretation of Jesus, while, at the same time, they gave all reverence to that other omething we call the Divine.

Ever since the populace of Jerusalem cried, |n that day of triumph, "Who is he?" the vorld has been repeating the question. Today, ^mid the wreck and ruin of our generation, we ask it with tenser meaning. The second sermon answers, — He is a translation of God. As Greek is translated into English, that the English scholar may read and understand, so God is translated into human form, that human people may know and understand Him. Jesus Christ so perfectly translates God that we all may know the very thought and heart and love of God if we study the life and work of Jesus.

From that standpoint have I thought and written. The sermons here printed deal with epochal hours in the life of our Lord and mark essential steps in the development of His Mes-

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sianic mission. Each sermon is meant to be a meditation at an important station along that via sacra of His blessed life. May the meditations by the way be sweet. May the terminus find us saying from a fuller heart, "My Lord and my God. ' '

J. Stanley Duekee.

South Church Study, Brockton, Massachusetts, November 6, 1915.

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