Chapter IV

Faraday's text is an ill-used text. It is frequently mis-quoted. It occurred one day in the course of a theological lesson over which Rabbi Duncan was presiding.

'Repeat that passage!' said the Rabbi to the student who had just spoken.

'_I know in whom I have_----'

'My dear sir,' interrupted the Rabbi, 'you must never let even a preposition come between you and your Saviour!'

And when Dr. Alexander, of Princeton, was dying, a friend endeavored to fortify his faith by reciting some of the most familiar passages and promises. Presently he ventured upon the words:

'_I know in whom I have believed, and_----'

But the sick man raised his hand.

'No, no,' exclaimed the dying Principal, 'it is not "I know _in_ whom" but "I know _whom_"; I cannot have even the little word "_in_" between me and Christ. _I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day!_'

John Oxenham has expressed the same thought with an accent and emphasis well worthy of the theme:

Not What, but _Whom_, I do believe,
_That_, in my darkest hour of need,
Hath comfort that no mortal creed
To mortal man may give.

Not What but _Whom_.
For Christ is more than all the creeds,
And His full life of gentle deeds
Shall all the creeds outlive.

Not What I do believe, but _Whom_.
_Who_ walks beside me in the gloom?
_Who_ shares the burden wearisome?
_Who_ all the dim way doth illume,
And bids me look beyond the tomb
The larger life to live?

Not what I do believe,
But _Whom_!
Not What,
But _Whom_!

It was a Person, a Living and Divine Person, of whom Faraday was so certain and on whom he rested so securely at the last.