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the Light of the world, but He also tells His disciples that _they_ too
are the light of the world. All Christians in whom the Holy Ghost
lives--that is all real Christians--are one with Christ in God and are
like Christ. They will therefore have similar experiences, and what
Christ did they will also do."[22]

Not only is there a power of free choice in the soul; there is as well
an elemental hunger in man which pushes him Godward. "God," he often
says, "can give only {24} to those who hunger." In a very great
passage which reminds one of Pascal he says: "The kingdom of God is in
you and he who searches for it outside himself will never find it, for
_apart from God no one can either seek or find God, for he who seeks
God, already in truth has Him_."[23] He says nearly the same thing
again in the little book, _Vom Gesetz Gottes_: "He who does not know
God from God Himself does not ever know Him." This central insight of
Denck's religious faith that God and man are not completely sundered,
but meet, as he says,[24] in the deeps of ourselves, is grounded upon
the fact of experience that there is within us a supra-individual
Reality which becomes revealed to us sometimes as a Light, sometimes as
a Word, sometimes as a Presence or environing Spirit. This testimony
is Denck's main contribution, and we must next see how he sets it
forth. There is, he says, a witness in every man. He who does not
listen to it blinds himself, although God has given him originally a
good inward eyesight. If a man will keep still and listen he will hear
what the Spirit witnesses within him. Not only in _us_ but in the
heathen and in Jews this witness is given, and men might be preached to
outwardly forever without perceiving, if they did not have this witness
in their own hearts.[25] The Light shines, the invisible Word of God
is uttered in the hearts of all men who come into the world, and this
Light gives all men freedom and power to become children of God.[26]
There is both an inward principle of revelation which he calls _das
innere Wort_, and a principle of active power which he calls _die Kraft
des Allerhoechsten_ (the power of the Highest), not two things, but one
reality under two aspects and two names, and he insists that he who
turns to this Divine, spiritual reality, which is one with God, and
obeys it and loves its leading has already found God and has come to
himself. "Oh, who will give me a voice," he writes, "that I