come confused with his, and so shall we be one
with Christ and through Christ with God. Thus then we see the
great effect of the Incarnation, as far as our nature is
concerned, _was to render human love for the Most High a
possible thing_. The Law had said, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy
strength;' and could men have lived by law, 'which is the
strength of sin,' verily righteousness and life would have been
by that law. But it was not possible, and all were concluded
under sin, that in Christ might be the deliverance of all. I
believe that Redemption" (_i.e._, what Christ has done and
suffered for mankind) "is universal, in so far as it left no
obstacle between man and God, but man's own will: that indeed is
in the power of God's election, with whom alone rest the abysmal
secrets of personality; but as far as Christ is concerned, his
death was for all, since his intentions and affections were
equally directed to all, and 'none who come to him will he in
any wise cast out.'

"I deprecate any hasty rejection of these thoughts as novelties.
Christianity is indeed, as St. Augustin says, 'pulchritudo tam
antiqua;' but he adds, 'tam nova,' for it is capable of
presenting to every mind a new face of truth. The great
doctrine, which in my judgment these observations tend to
strengthen and illumine, _the doctrine of personal love for a
personal God_, is assuredly no novelty, but has in all times
been the vital principle of the Church. Many are the forms of
antichristian heresy, which for a season have depressed and
obscured that principle of life; but its nature is connective
and resurgent; and neither the Papal Hierarchy with its pomp of
systematized errors, not the worse apostasy of latitudinarian
Protestantism, have ever so far prevailed, but that many from
age to age have proclaimed and vindicated the eternal gospel of
love, believing, as I also firmly believe, that any opinion
which tends to keep out of sight the living and loving God,
whether it substitute for Him an idol, an occult agency, or a
formal creed, can be nothing better than a vain and portentous
shadow projected from the selfish darkness of unregenerate man."

The following is from the Review of Tennyson's Poems; we do not know
that during the lapse of eig