He comes to us as one unknown

He comes to us as one unknown. Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926-2024).  In A House of Praise (2003) the author placed this in the section entitled ‘The Lord Jesus Christ: known in experience’. It was written at Ruan Minor and on Poldhu Beach in August 1982. The first line comes from a sentence in The Quest of the Historical Jesus (1919) by Albert Schweitzer, ‘He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those first men who knew him not.’ That beautiful sentence conveys much of the wonder that happens when people find Christ, who comes to them mysteriously, as one unknown. Something of this inspiration must have come to the author when he wrote the first...