ency of his character to
represent and incarnate for us the character of God. It is a
completely gratuitous assumption to suppose that it will ever lose that
sufficiency. Even in the development of Science, there comes a time
when its fundamentals are virtually beyond the reach of
reconsideration. Still more in practical life, mere unmotived,
gratuitous possibilities may be disregarded. It weakens the hold of
fundamental convictions upon the mind to be perpetually contemplating
the possibility or probability of fundamental revision. We ought no
doubt to keep the spiritual ear ever open that we may always be hearing
what the Spirit saith unto {188} the Churches. But to look forward to
a time when any better way will be discovered of thinking of God than
Jesus' way of thinking of Him as a loving Father is as gratuitous as to
contemplate the probability of something in human life at present
unknown being discovered of greater value than Love. Until that
discovery is made, our Religion will still remain the Religion of him
who, by what he said and by what he was, taught the world to think of
God as the supreme Love and the supreme Holiness, the source of all
other love and all other holiness.

LITERATURE

The literature is here too vast to mention even the works of the very
first importance: I can only select a very few books which have been
useful to myself. The late Sir John Seeley's _Ecce Homo_ may be
regarded as in the light of modern research a somewhat uncritical book,
but it remains to my mind the most striking expression of the appeal
which Christ makes to the Conscience of the modern world. It has
proved a veritable fifth Gospel to many seekers after light. Bishop
Moorhouse's little book, _The Teaching of Christ_, will serve as an
introduction to the study of Christ's life and work. A more elaborate
treatment of the subject, with which I am very much in sympathy, is
Wendt's _Teaching of Jesus_. The ideal life of Christ perhaps remains
to be written. Professor Sanday's Article on 'Jesus Christ' in
Hastings' _Dictionary of the Bible_ may be mentioned as a good
representative of moderate and scholarly Conservatism or Liberal
Conservatism. Professor Oscar Holtzmann's _Life of Jesus_ is based on
more radical, perhaps over-radical, criticism. Professor Harnack's
{189} _What is Christianity?_ has become the typical expression of the
Ritschlian attitude. The ideas of extreme Roman Catholic 'Modernism'