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arm!-the wonder of art, the perfection of poetry! Thou picture divine, thou teachest us what true Christianity is, and what it is eventually destined to be. That picture tells us in the language of prophetic poetry that as every man is evolved out of woman, so shall every man sit at the feet of woman and learn the tenderness and sweetness of divine love. Chastity, thy name is woman! Hallowed be woman's name! For in the school of womanhood will man be

perfected. Has the world come up to the highest point of man's moral development? If so, there will be yet another point of departure, another field of progress, and that is the development of the woman-side of humanity; for man must be man and woman both. I hold that woman is the perfection of man, inasmuch as love is the perfection of virtue. There is nothing on earth so divine as love; nothing so sweet, so enduring, so all-conquering as love. Infinitely higher than any virtue that man can boast is the sweet feminine love in woman's breast. Truly man is made in the image of his Maker; more so is woman. Therefore, after the divinity that is in man has been fully developed in us, the divinity that is in woman will undergo a complete development and expansion. Be sure Mary's name will not be obliterated from the pages of history, but will grow more and more powerful till it leavens all mankind. You talk

of civilization in these days. What is it but a reverent recognition of God-in-man and God-inwoman? It is clear that greater honour shall be paid to woman than has yet been done. Woman's divinity shall be more fully vindicated, and earth shall exalt motherly love and forgiveness above all virtues, as is done in heaven. Woman's milk has suckled and fed the little infant. In the highest civilization womanly love will perfect and sweeten the character of man. Then will the picture of human progress and happiness be complete.

Can you conceive Christ without Mary? Whatsoever is in Mary is logically included in Sonship. Mark the length and breadth, the height and depth of the true Christ, the allinclusive, the all-comprehending Christ. Large as the Logos, wide as the World, deep as divine humanity, who can measure, who can fathom. this Christ? In glorifying Christ we only glorify the eternal Logos. Let all nations vindicate and glorify the divine Logos. The more we exalt the Son, the more we exalt the Father. Therefore does pure Theism go to the fullest extent in glorifying the merits of the Son in the name of the Father. Even the co-eternity of the Son with the Father, it has fearlessly upheld and proclaimed. As the sleeping Logos, did Christ live potentially in the Father's bosom, long, long before he came into this world of

ours. As the Lord spoke, the Logos or Reason came forth, and was lodged in creation, not in human beings alone, but even in animals. Wherever there is intelligence, in all stages of life, where there is the least spark of instinct, there dwells Christ, if Christ is the Logos. In this right and rational view do not the Fathers all agree? Do they not speak of an all-pervading Christ? Do they not bear unequivocal testimony to Christ in Socrates? Even in barbarian philosophy and in all Hellenic literature they saw and adored their Logos-Christ. In the midst of this large assembly I deny and repudiate the little Christ of popular theology, and stand up for a greater Christ, a fuller Christ, a more eternal Christ, a more universal Christ. I plead for the eternal Logos of the Fathers, and I challenge the world's assent. This is the Christ who was in Greece and Rome, in Egypt and India. In the bards and the poets of the Rig Veda was he. He dwelt in Confucius and in Sakya Muni. This is the true Christ whom I can see everywhere, in all lands and in all times, in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, in America, in ancient and modern times. He is not the

monopoly of any nation or creed. All literature, all science, all philosophy, every doctrine that is true, every form of righteousness, every virtue that belongs to the Son, is the true subjective Christ whom all ages glorify. Begotten by the

"volition" of Almighty God, as Tertullian says, the Spirit-Christ spread forth in the universe as an emanation from the Divine Reason, and you can see him with the eye of faith underlying the endless varieties of truth and goodness in ancient and modern times. He is the Chit-Christ, pure intelligence, the Word of God, mighty Logos. Scattered in all schools of philosophy and in all religious sects, scattered in all men and women of the East and the West, are multitudinous Christ-principles, and fragments of Christ-life,one vast and identical Sonship diversely manifested. The one ideal Christ manifest in multiform concrete little Christs. Sum up all that is true and good and beautiful in the life of humanity, and you have the grand Logos of the early Christians, the Christ of Universal Theism. Thus all reason in man is Christ-reason, all love is Christ-love, all power is Christ-power. In this sense we are all Christ's, one and all. Let not India deny this. My countrymen, there is nothing in such a confession of which ye need be ashamed. I commend to you not the little Christ of little Christian sects, but the grand Christ of universal humanity, the perfect Man, the ideal Son, that was, is, and shall continue to be. Who is there in this assembly that can refuse to do homage to such a Christ? Already he is in you. In every true Brahmin, in every loyal votary of the Veda on the banks of the

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sacred Ganges, is Christ, the Son of God. The holy Word, the eternal Veda dwells in every one of us. Go into the depths of your own consciousness, and you will find this indwelling Logos, the Son of God, woven, warp and woof, into your inmost soul. Whatsoever in you is good and holy is the Son. If an honest Hindu denies this, surely he denies he knows not what. If a pious Hindu fights against Christ, as often alas! he does, he fights against a name, which accident has made bitter and offensive to him. But India, my beloved India, is not, never was, an enemy of the Word. Unto the eternal Logos every true Hindu has sworn fealty.

The real recognition of Christ has taken place in India. It is an accomplished fact. Only the nominal recognition remains. Like other nations India too will grow into a fuller acceptance of the doctrine and the spirit of the Logos. When the time cometh India will find out Christ, and Christ will find out India. If Christ is universal Sonship, then undoubtedly so far as ye are good and true ye are sons of God and partakers of Christ, and so far is your character "Christian," in the highest sense of the word. And if you believe in this indwelling Logos what is there to hinder your proclaiming him your mediator? Surely you cannot reach the Father except through the Son. This necessary logical mediation none can ignore. It exists

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