210 The First and Great Commandment
properly employed will support them; and they will give
peace to the reason when reverently and fully studied. The
prejudice against the supernatural and miraculous nature of
Christianity, sometimes justified as founded on science, is
not founded on true science; and if there is a real conviction
of the existence of God and a right interpretation of nature
as created and sustained by the Divine will, such prejudice
cannot exist. The resistance to Christianity, as asserted to
involve belief contradicting so-called natural law, is really
based on denial or neglect of indubitable spiritual facts;
and is a misreading of nature and human history, and is
blind to spiritual realities.
The Incarnation of the Son of God in human nature,
with the sequence of miraculous events in His history, is
to be seen as the explanation of the spiritual facts of the
universe, as the climax which the Creator has purposed all
along, as not violation of so-called natural law but fulfill-
ment and proof of spiritual law. With mighty testimony
and mighty thinking the author of the Epistle to the
Hebrews points us to Christ as the consummation of the
self-revelation of God, as the consummation of the Divine
plan for man:
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners
spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath
in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He
hath appointed heir of all things, by Whom also He made
the worlds; Who being the brightness of His glory,
and the express image of His person, and upholding all
things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself
purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty
on high; being made so much better than the angels, as
He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name
than they.” Hebrews i, 1-4.