'Why call ye Me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?'—S. LUKE vi. 46. 'The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you.'—ROMANS ii. 24. 'What if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?'—ROMANS iii. 3. 'By reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.'—2 S. PETER ii. 1. 'So is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.'—1 S. PETER ii. 15....

That there is at present a widespread alienation from the Christian Faith can hardly be denied. Sometimes by violent invective, sometimes by quiet assumption, the conclusion is conveyed that Christianity is obsolete. Whatever benefits it may have conferred in rude, unenlightened ages, it is now outgrown, it is not in keeping with the science and discovery of modern times. 'The good Lord Jesus has had His day,'[ 1 ] is murmured in pitying condescension towards those who still suffer themselves to

'I am sought of them that asked not for Me: I am found of them that sought Me not.'—ISAIAH lxv. 1. 'Not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves; which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one an

That Religion and Morality have no necessary connection is a popular assumption. In books, in pamphlets, in magazines, on platforms, in ordinary conversation, it is loudly proclaimed or quietly insinuated that the morality of the future will be Independent Morality, Morality without Sanction. Morality, it is iterated and reiterated, can get on quite well without Religion: Religion is a positive hindrance to Morality. This view is, no doubt, extreme. Perhaps it is only here and there in the writi

'Whither shall I go from Thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from Thy presence.'—PSALM cxxxix. 7. 'Do I not fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.'—JEREMIAH xxiii. 24. 'The heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee.'—1 KINGS viii. 27. 'In Him we live, and move, and have our being.'—ACTS xvii. 28. 'One God and Father of all, Who is above all, and through all, and in you all.'—EPHESIANS iv. 6. 'Of Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things: to Whom be glory for ever. Amen.'—ROMANS xi.

Among proposed substitutes for Christianity, none occupies a more prominent place than Pantheism, the identity of God and the universe. 'Pantheism,' says Haeckel, 'is the world system of the modern scientist.'[ 1 ] Pantheism, or the Religion of the Universe, is, in one aspect, a protest against Anthropomorphism, the making of God in the image of man. It is in supposing God to be altogether such as we are, to be swayed by the same motives, to be actuated by the same passions as we are, that the m

'And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.'—GENESIS i. 26. 'When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars which Thou hast ordained, what is man that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man that Thou visitest him? For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and hast crowned him with glory and honour.'—PSALM viii. 3-5 Thou hast put all things in subjection under His feet. For in that He put all in subjection under Him, He left noth

The position which Religion, and especially the Christian Religion, assigns to man, to man as he ought to be, is very high. He is made in the image of God, he is a little lower than the angels, a little lower than God, he is a partaker of the Divine Nature. But as the corruption of the best is the worst, there is nothing in the whole creation more miserable, more loathsome, than man as he has forgotten his high estate and plunged himself into degradation. 'What man has made of man,' is the sadde

'Ye believe in God, believe also in Me.'—S. JOHN xiv. 1. 'I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me.'—S. JOHN xiv. 6. 'He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.'—S. JOHN xiv. 9. 'Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.'—ACTS iv. 12. 'He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.'—2 S. JOHN 9....

By Theism without Christ is not meant a system like Judaism or Mohammedanism, but a modern school which maintains that faith in God becomes weakened and impaired by being associated with faith in Jesus. There are those who cling with tenacity to the first article of the Apostles' Creed, 'I believe in God the Father Almighty,' but who reject with equal fervour the second article of the Creed, 'And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord.' They resist with horror the suggestion that the world is u

'For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.'—DEUTERONOMY xxxii. 31. 'He asked His disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am? And they said, Some say that Thou art John the Baptist; some Elias; and others Jeremias or one of the prophets.'—S. MATTHEW xvi. 13, 14. 'What think ye of Christ? Whose Son is He?—S. MATTHEW, xxii. 42. 'And there was much murmuring among the people concerning Him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay, but H

Of the investigations of modern criticism the most serious are those which have concerned the person of our Lord. It has been felt both by assailants and by defenders of the Faith that, so long as His supremacy remains acknowledged, Christianity has not been overthrown. Other doctrines once considered all-important may fall into comparative abeyance: whether they are upheld or rejected or modified, matters little to Christianity as Christianity. But more and more it has grown clear that Christ H

'I hope no reader imagines me so weak to stand up in defence of real Christianity such as used in primitive times (if we may believe the authors of those ages) to have an influence upon men's beliefs and actions. To offer at the restoring of that would indeed be a wild project: it would be to dig up foundations: to destroy at one blow all the wit and half the learning of the kingdom, to break the entire frame and constitution of things, to ruin trade, extinguish arts and sciences, with the profe

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