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Him, says the Bible, the perfect human morality is manifested, and shown
by His life and conduct to be identical with the divine. He bids us be
perfect even as our Father in heaven is perfect; and He only has a right-
-in the sense of a sound and fair reason--for so doing; because He can
say, and has said, "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father."
At least, such is the doctrine of St. John. He tells us that the Word,
who was God, was made flesh, and dwelt in his land and neighbourhood; and
that he and his fellows beheld His glory; and saw that it was the glory
of the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. And then,
in the next chapter, he goes on to tell us how that glory was first
manifested forth--by turning water into wine at a marriage feast. On the
truth of the story, I say simply, in passing, that I believe it fully and
literally; as I do also St. John's assertions about our Lord's Divinity.
But I only wish to point out to you why I called this miracle the crucial
experiment, which proved God's goodness to be identical with that which
we call (and rightly) goodness in man.
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