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Updated: June 21, 2025
The Christian will, with entire naturalness, be loyal to so much of the Bible as "finds him," and humbly hope and endeavor to be led into ampler ranges of spiritual life, that he may "apprehend with all saints" the breadth, length, depth and height of the historic Self-revelation of God. The Bible is thus a standard of religious experience.
The century now closing has redeemed Knox from neglect, and has gathered around his name a mass of biographical material. That material, too, includes much that is of the nature of self-revelation, to be gleaned from familiar letters, as well as from his own history of his time.
The penitent is not driven only, but drawn God's own loving self-revelation in Christ is His true power. 'I, if I am lifted up, will draw all men unto Me. A light of hope is in it. The very sense of sin brings us to Him, to hide our faces on His heart like a child in its mother's lap. This response of the soul may be instantaneous. If it is not immediate, it too probably will never be at all.
Of course his verse is self-revelation, without which poetry cannot be; but it is the revelation of a soul dwelling habitually in the upper altitudes of thought and emotion, and always assuming that fellow-mortals who care for poetry at all will be capable of a serious joy in the things of the mind.
But by far more important is the indirect self-revelation when he is recalling that other distant self, the child of three or of ten, the youth of twenty. Ford had asked Borrow for a book of his adventures and travels, something "thick and slab," to follow "The Bible in Spain." The result shows that Borrow had almost done with outward adventure.
It is a self-revelation truly, but it is honest, straightforward, and manly. There is nothing plaintive or mawkish about it. We next find Burns flying from home to escape legal measures that Jean Armour's father was instituting against him. He was in hiding at Kilmarnock to be out of the way of legal diligence, and it was in such circumstances that he saw his poems through the press.
When people draw the veil aside for a minute they generally put it back closer than ever, and do not like to be reminded of the self-revelation. In the foolish friendships that make so much unhappiness, half the folly lies in expecting the other person to be always at high-water mark, and in being fretful and reproachful when she is not. But to return to "schoolgirl friendships."
These things are certain, and no more is needed to make sin produce, by necessary consequence, misery, and ruin; while similarly, goodness brings joy, peace, and blessing. But again, the self-revelation of God has this same double aspect. 'The way of the Lord' may mean His process by which He reveals His character. Every truth concerning Him may be either a joy or a terror to men.
For the first time they met outside a drawing-room; and the change in their environment seemed to warrant some change in their relation to one another. After the first greeting, and a short significant pause for what can be more significant than silence between two people who have reached that stage of sensitiveness to each other's moods when every word or movement seems like self-revelation?
It seems to me that the whole progress of life and thought, of love and charity, depends upon our coming to understand each other. The hostile seclusion which some desire is really a savage and almost animal inheritance; and the best part of civilisation has sprung from the generous self-revelation of kindly and honourable souls.
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