CHRIST the GLORY of GOD: “who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person” (Heb 1:3). While the heavens declare the glory of God, the revelation they impart is inadequate for the needs of life. Our appreciation of nature will not teach us lessons about prayer and sacrifice, or wash out the defiling stains of wrong. The skill of God may be revealed in nature, but the character of God is revealed in Jesus Christ. In Christ, the glory of God became personal. His death and resurrection are further expressions of the glory of God. They reveal the glory of pardoning mercy and forgiving love, the glory of the supreme sacrifice and of complete redemption, the glory of perfected immortality. A world of progress lies between “The heavens declare the glory of God” and “the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” The one indicates greatness, the other grace; the first exhibits His power, the other His personality. —J. Macbeath