“And you remember I answered you wrong: I said it was to save the world.”
“I do. But remember, I said primarily, for of course he did come to save the world.”
“Yes, just so you put it. Well, I think I can answer the question correctly now, and in learning the true answer I have learned much. Did he not come first of all to do the will of his Father? Was not his Father first with him always and in everything—his fellow-men next—for they were his Father’s?”
“I need not say it—you know that you are right. Jesus is tenfold a real person to you—is he not—since you discovered that truth?”
“I think so; I hope so. It does seem as if a grand simple reality had begun to dawn upon me out of the fog—the form as of a man pure and simple, because the eternal son of the Father.”
“And now, may I not ask—are you able to accept the miracles, things in themselves so improbable?”
“If we suppose the question settled as to whether the man was what he said, then all that remains is to ask whether the works reported of him are consistent with what you can see of the character of the man.”
“And to you they seem—?”
“Some consistent, others not. Concerning the latter I look for more light.”
“Meantime let me ask you a question about them. What was the main object of miracles?”