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 so embodied in revelation that mankind may get finite, yet true presentations of the goodness and truth of God. If infinite Love could not reveal itself, it would not be infinite. To the question, How can the finite know the infinite, or God, the reply is, the life and character of Jesus Christ is a revelation of God, a revelation of His goodness and truth, accommodated to every possible state of willing receptivity.

Knowledge of the absoluteness of good and truth in God makes clear the origin and nature of wrong and evil. Wrong and evil have their origin in the misuse of the free will of man, whereby he can, if he choose, deny God and live in disorder. Wrong is the violation of divine order in which God created mankind to live. Evil is the effect of disorder. There can be no virtue conceivable without its opposite, for the possibility of the opposite with man makes virtue attainable. Or it may