the world, but that the world through Him might be saved[1]." He who being God became man, did so that in Him man might be lifted up to God. He in whom was revealed the perfect claim of goodness, which is God, made also the perfect answer to that claim on behalf of man: and out of the perfect offering of that Human Life which cancelled our rebellion there sprung a new life which we can share. Therefore He formed a Church in which being enrolled and sanctified men might rise to God: therefore He gave us sacraments through which a life and strength greater than our own might lift us heavenwards.
And so the full glory of such an education as is permitted to you here is of this twofold kind, that it first reveals to you the end of your whole being, and then the means and possibility of reaching it. Both are found in God, revealed by Christ, ministered to you through the Church.
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- ↑ S. John iii. 17.
