But I don't believe that in this world, or in the next, He ever left man, woman, or child, but lived with each one all through the sin and the destruction.

And, sir, I take it that men couldn't see that until at last there came One who looked into God's heart and saw the truth, and He wanted to tell it, but there were no words, so though He had power in Him to be King over the whole earth, He chose instead to be the companion of sinners, and to go down into all the depths of pain and shame and death and hell.

And He said His Father had been doing it always, and He did it to show forth the Father.

That is what it means.

I am sure that is what it means." The preacher was surprised to see the transformation that was going on in the man before him.