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[?] the utmost suffering, patience, purity, self-sacrifice,
humiliation, triumph, glory. This fact, not any theory or
doctrine about it, not the atonement or any one
part or aspect of what we call Christianity, is the central &
all-comprehensive Reality which the church believes or
celebrates & commemorates in all her Feasts & Fasts; her
Creed & Sacraments; her Fount[?] & altar, her symbols of
beauty, & her sermons - wh. are not always beautiful!
The worship, for which sanctuaries are built, is always beautiful,
or many be. This "fact," - called by the church the Incarnation, is the
Chr[?] Revelation. It is the one vital theme of all the Scriptures, -
fr. Genesis to the Apocalypse, - of the narrative, biography, prophecy,
books of law, Gospels & Epistles. The Bible might logically
begin with the first Chapter of St. John. All that goes before
in the national Hebrew literature, is 'preparation,' all that
comes after grows out of it. This is the unity of the volume.
The authority is greater than a few proof-texts.

What is the object, the outcome, the purpose, the end?
character. A race of men & women beginning ^{to live} here,
by union with the Son of God & Son of Man, that
righteous life which is immortal & eternal: men
whose lives are patterned after the Perfect Man;
[?] women, married or unmarried, striving to live
above this world, or with other, after the 'Virgin' mother.
This building of character is slow work, hard work,
mostly obscure work. But what is better? It is
better than religious "opinons", dogmas, sentiment, prophesy, fame.

How was the divine regeneration of our
[?], this second birth of mankind, this mutual
interflow & inter-communion between the two
worlds, to be kept up, continued, carried forward?