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8          DOCTRINE OF THE LORD. pels, if we may be allowed such an expression. It contains some of the most beautiful and touching narratives, and most affecting discourses of our Lord. There is nothing in the whole range of the Scriptures so inexpressibly tender as portions of those discourses which the Lord delivered on the eve of His visible departure from His disci- ples, recorded in John: Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in Me. I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you. I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

The Gospel of John brings out, more fully than either of the synoptical Gospels, the doctrine of the Divinity, the Supreme Divinity of Jesus Christ. This Gospel seems to be addressed more peculiarly to simple, earnest, sincere, heavenly states of mind. Clement of Alexandria speaks of it as the spiritual Gospel. He says John wrote it at the request of his friends, to place by the side of the Gospels, his more spiritual Gospel.

In the first verses of the Gospel of John, we find that He who came into the world is described un der the term Logos, in the original. In the be ginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God. And the Logos was made flesh, and dwelt among us. This term Logos is a Greek word, and had a well-defined