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There is a third ideal, not the same, but akin to these, which

has a place in the home and heart of every believer in the

religion of Christ, and in which men seem to find a nearer and

more familiar truth, the Divine man, the Son of Man, the Saviour

of mankind, Who is the first-born and head of the whole family in

heaven and earth, in Whom the Divine and human, that which is

without and that which is within the range of our earthly

faculties, are indissolubly united. Neither is this divine form

of goodness wholly separable from the ideal of the Christian

Church, which is said in the New Testament to be 'His body,' or

at variance with those other images of good which Plato sets

before us. We see Him in a figure only, and of figures of speech

we select but a few, and those the simplest, to be the expression

of Him. We behold Him in a picture, but He is not there. We

gather up the fragments of His discourses, but neither do they

represent Him as He truly was.