nother. Man can be reconciled to God only by an absolute
surrender of himself to God. To assimilate this spiritual act to a
commercial or legal transaction is to destroy the very idea of the
moral life. No explanation, however, can be considered satisfactory
which does not safeguard two ideas of a deeply ethical nature--the
voluntariness and the vicariousness of Christ's sacrifice. We must be
careful to do justice, on the one hand, to the eternal relations in
which Christ stands to God; and on the other, to the intimate
association with man into which Jesus has entered. It is the task of
theology to bring together the various passages of Scripture, and
exhibit their systematic connection and relative value for a doctrine
of soteriology. For Ethics the one significant fact to be recognised
is that in a human life was fulfilled perfect obedience, even as far as
death, a perfect obedience that completely met and fully satisfied the
demand of the very highest, the divine ideal.

3. _The Resurrection of Christ_.--If the Incarnation naturally issues
in the sacrifice unto death, that again is crowned and sealed by
Christ's risen life. The Resurrection is the vindication and
completion of the Redeemer's work. He who was born of the seed of
David according to the flesh was declared to be the Son of God by the
Resurrection. It was the certainty that He had risen that gave to His
death, in the apostles' eyes, its sacrificial value. This was the
ground of St. Paul's conviction that the old order had passed away, and
that a new order had been established. 'If Christ be not risen ye are
yet in your sins.' In virtue of His ascended life Christ becomes the
indwelling presence and living power within the regenerate man. It is
in no external way that the Redeemer exerts His influence. He is the
principle of life working within the soul. The key {168} to the new
state is to be found in the mystical union of the Christian with the
risen Lord. The twofold act of death and resurrection has its analogy
in the experience of every redeemed man. Within the secret sanctuary
of the human soul that has passed from death to life, the history of
the Redeemer is re-enacted. In the several passages which refer to
this subject the idea is that the changed life is based upon an ethical
dying and rising again with Christ.[4] The Christ within the heart is
the vital principle and dynamic energy by which the believer lives and
triumphs o