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Rh could do no more. He had manifested the Godhead to men—its power, its wisdom, its goodness, in a visible and tangible form: He had opened the way to heaven, to all who were willing to "take up their cross" and follow.

On the third day, the man Jesus crucified rose again the Lord Jesus glorified. And in that glorified Humanity, "He ascended up," as the Apostle says, "far above all heavens, that He might fill all things." And thus "filling all things," it must be that He rules and orders all things, and guides and sustains all things, and is the life of the universe; and especially is the communicator of life and happiness to all those that look to and believe in Him. As He said to His disciples, "I am the Vine,—ye are the branches; as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in me: for without Me ye can do nothing." Here, then, we have a —One, whom men have seen and touched; one, who has actually stood upon this globe of earth which He made, and addressed men His creatures, and declared to them in person His Divine nature and character—His power, wisdom, and goodness,—and who proved, too, the truth of His words by the greatness of His acts. Who shall doubt now? who shall ask any longer, "Is there a God?"—when God has manifested Himself, thus, in visible form to men, and brought forth Divinity to open view? It is a question that belongs properly to paganism and heathenism, not to the Christian world—not to those that have even a historic knowledge of Jesus Christ and His wondrous work. Leave it to the Grecian