ver every obstacle--the world, sin, sorrow, and death itself.
'I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.'[5] All that makes life,
'life indeed'--an exalted, harmonious, and joyous existence--is derived
from union with the living Lord, who has come to be what He is for man
by the earthly experiences through which He has passed. Thus by His
Incarnation, Death, and Resurrection He is at once the source and goal,
the spring and ideal of the new life.

'Yea, thro' life, death, sorrow, and through sinning,
He shall suffice me for He hath sufficed;
Christ is the end, for Christ was the beginning;
Christ the beginning, for the end is Christ.'[6]

Theology may seek to analyse the personality of Christ into its
elements--the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus. But after
all it is one and indivisible. It is the whole fact of Christ, and not
any particular experience taken in its isolation, which is the power of
God unto salvation. The question still remains after all our analysis,
What was it that gave to these events in the history of Jesus their
creative and transforming power? And the answer can only be--Because
Christ was what He was. It was the unique character of the Being of
whom these were but the manifestations which wrought the spell. What
bound the New Testament Christians to the cross was that their Master
hung there. They saw in that life lived among {169} men, and in that
sacrifice upon Calvary, the perfect consummation of the ideal manhood
that lived within their own hearts, and of the love, new upon the
earth, which made it possible. The cross stood for the symbol of a
truth that pierced to the inner core of their souls. 'He bore our
sins.' And thus down the centuries, in their hour of shame, and grief,
and death, men have lifted their eyes to the Man of Sorrows, and have
found in His life and sacrifice, apart from all theories of atonement,
their peace and triumph. It is this note of absolute surrender towards
God and of perfect love for man which, because it answers to a deep
yearning of the human heart, has given to the mystery of the
Incarnation and the Cross its lifting and renewing power,

II

THE HUMAN RESPONSE

Possession of power involves the obligation to use it. The force is
given; it has to be appropriated. The spirit of Christ is not offered
in order to free a man from the duties of the moral life. Man is not
simply the recipient of divine energy. He has