There is not, of course, any superabundance of such
instances, but Christ's reporters were not likely to be on the
look-out for sayings of this type. Yet I find it impossible to
believe that One who touched all the stops of the human heart, and
whose stories are among the most beautiful and vivid things ever
said in the world, can have exercised His unequalled power over
human nature without allowing His hearers to be charmed by many
humorous and incisive touches, as well as by more poetical and
emotional images. No one has ever swayed the human mind in so
unique a fashion, without holding in his hand all the strings that
move and stir the faculties of delighted apprehension; and of these
faculties humour is one of the foremost. The amazing lightness of
Christ's touch upon life, the way in which His words plumbed the
depths of personality, make me feel abundantly sure that there was
no dreary sense of overwhelming seriousness in His relations with
His friends and disciples. Believing as we do that He was Perfect
Man, we surely cannot conceive of one of the sweetest and most
enlivening of all human qualities as being foreign to His
character.
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