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Rh and sorrows and responsibilities of life press heavily; when the foes of his own spiritual house-hold rise up in their strength and fierceness; when the spheres of infernal spirits invade and darken his moral firmament, shutting out the light of the sun, moon and stars; oh! then it is that this knowledge of God in Christ—of Divinity in organic union with humanity—comes to him with consoling and strengthening power. In the clear light of this heavenly doctrine he sees that there are no. abysses to which his soul can sink, where Christ Himself has not been; no darkness which can overshadow him, that is more appalling than that known to Christ; no states of temptation more agonizing, no assaults from hell more fierce, than those which Christ experienced. And seeing and knowing all this, and realizing that in and of himself he has no power to resist the assaults of infernal spirits, but that the Divine Humanity—the eternal and almighty Saviour—has "all power in heaven and on earth," he looks to Him, and prays to Him, and confides in Him, and so (with his own voluntary co-operation) receives from Him the succor that he needs.

And thus through all our journey from the cradle to the grave, Divinity in organic union with humanity; God in the person of Jesus Christ; God invested with our infirm nature; God living and laboring and suffering as man