Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

THE FIRST AND THE SECOND MAN.109power of the Restorer shines forth. The trueHead of our race came to redeem and sanctifynot so many individuals but His Body. Surelythere is no distinction more important to bear inmind.40 " No single member by itself can makea body ; each of them fails in this ; cooperationis required, for when many become one, there isone bod. The being or not being a body dependson being united or not united into one."And, again, beautiful as the individual member,the hand or the eye, may be in itself, far higheris the beauty which belongs to the body as thewhole in which these members coalesce and areone. Each member too has a double energy, itsown proper work, and that which it contributesto the body's unity, for this is a higher workwhich the cooperation of all produces; each adouble beauty, its beauty as a part, and thatwhich it adds to the whole : and these two, whichseem to be separate, have the closest connection,for a maimed limb impairs the whole body's force,and as to its beauty, as it is incomparably finethan the beauty of any part, so is it marred by aslight defect in one part, as the fairest face would40 OvSfV yap airrcav /co0' eavrb (ra>(j.a Svvarai troi¬?v, oAAJ djtoicos HKCUTTOVAei7T¬TOt ¬15 TO 7TOt¬«/ CTW/XO, Kttl Se? Trj$ (Tw6^0V' %TO.V a TO 7T0AAOyiv^rai, TOT* ¬ffT\v cv aG>p.a . . . . rb yap tlvai %(JL^ elvai 0-&