the result of sin, and that before the power of sin
can be broken, the penalty of sin must be removed. In the heart of man
is an inextinguishable sense of guilt, and an equally inextinguishable
thirst for reparation. It is the forebodings of conscience that make
death terrible. Blind the eyes and harden the heart, if you will. The
accusations of conscience will be like writings in invisible ink, that
come out clear and threatening in times of introspection and of sober
judgment. As Shakespeare says,

Their great guilt
Like poison given to work a great time after,
Now 'gins to bite the spirits.

The greatest chasm is between their souls and God, and they must have
peace with God, before they can have peace with men. Christ is our
peace, therefore, first of all, because he makes atonement for our sins,
pays our debts to justice, and sets our conscience free from guilt.
Christ is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the whole world,
making peace by the blood of his Cross. Having made our peace with God,
he makes peace in our warring powers of conscience and will, and then
brings about peace in our relations with others. As he made man at the
first of one blood, so he will at last bring all the nations back into
one brotherhood of holiness and love.

There is a moral theology, as well as a doctrinal theology. The moral
follows the doctrinal, and shows in practice that the doctrine is truth
and not error. Paul includes this moral teaching in his Epistle to the
Romans. At the beginning of his twelfth chapter he passes from his
discussion of justification by faith to speak of the proper effects of
faith in the Christian life: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice." Then
comes the noblest summary of duty to be found in all literature. All
manner of social service is enjoined, while the presupposition of that
service is ever held to be the sacrifice of Christ on our behalf and the
regenerating grace of God in the Christian heart. How much the heathen
world needs this part of the gospel, only some knowledge of the shameful
vices of the Orient can reveal to us. The first chapter of that same
Epistle is a correct picture of the heathen world of to-day. A pure
life, which is also a life lived for others, is something which
surpasses the power of Confucius or Buddha to produce or to maintain.
Such lives in the churches of mission lands are the we