Excerpt from Who Is Christ? Or Our Lord's Teaching Concerning His Own Person: A Discourse, Preached in the Wesleyan Church, Great St. James Street, Montreal, on Christmas Day, 1850

The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh; who is called Cl1r1st: when he 18 come, he will tell us all things. Jesus sanh unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. John iv. 25, 26.

The deyout student of the life of Jesus Christ will be more and more impressed with the conviction that He is truly a wonderful Being, far away above'all comparison or parallel. He rises upon the world as the Sun, which is not to be compared with the other stars of heaven, 'and which, while pouring a flood of radiance on every thing else, remains itself a glorious mystery. 1 am the light of' the world, was his own assumption, an averment fully sustained by his ministry. It is observable, that While he was the ex pected one of Israel, the Desire of all nations, his ad vent took mankind by surprise. Often had the prophets spoken of him, and sacrificial rites had cast their long sha dows before to indicate his coming, yet he came to his own, and his own received him not. The light shone, but the darkness admitted it not. They were amazed and confounded, and withal the world avenged itself for this surprise, by taking up arms against him, and against all his true disciples. Plainly did facts indicate from the be ginning, that His kingdom was not of this world. The world knew him not. They rejected him. Jesus of Na zareth became a name every where spoken against, so that he had with much justice to complain of the world's hatred, If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the 'world, the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. He that hateth me, hateth my Father also. Iti had not done amongthem the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law. They hated me without a cause.

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