YET THOU HAST SAID, ‘I KNOW YOU BY NAME.’

How often in Holy Scripture the promise of personhood is carried out by Almighty God. As for instance, when he speaks through Isaiah in the first verse of the 34th Chapter: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by name, and you are mine." Or as that promise is fulfilled in the New Testament in John 10:3: "He calleth his own sheep by name." Think of the wonder of it that the individual human being is known to Almighty God by name. The deepest desire in the heart of every person is to have this individuality, not only before God, but in the presence of society, and one of the real tragedies of present society is the destruction, progressively, of our personhood. Ours is a time when we have learned to make machines so much like man in…