e
for supposing that it would suddenly become irresistible in another
life? Build what we may on the unrevealed mercies of the future for them
that live and die in the darkness of ignorance, let us build nothing for
ourselves who are shutting our eyes and closing our hearts to the Divine
light and love which are already ours.

* * * * *

"Behold, then, the goodness and severity of God;" and may His goodness
lead us to repentance, that His severity we may never know. This is,
indeed, His will for every one of us: He has "appointed us not unto
wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus
Christ." If we are lost we are suicides.

THE END

Footnote 1: J. Stalker, _The Christology of Jesus_, p. 23, footnote.

Footnote 2: "The sources for our knowledge of the actual teaching of
Jesus do not lie merely in the Gospel accounts, but also in the
literature of the apostolic age, especially in the Epistles of Paul....
Even had no direct accounts about Jesus been handed down to us, we
should still possess, in the apostolic literature, a perfectly valid
testimony to the historical existence and epoch-making significance of
Jesus as a teacher."--H.H. Wendt, _Teaching of Jesus_, vol. i, p. 28.

Footnote 3: _What is Christianity?_ p. 20.

Footnote 4: _Three Essays on Religion_, p. 253.

Footnote 5: _Literature and Dogma_, p. 10.

Footnote 6: See Harnack's _What is Christianity_? p. 4.

Footnote 7: See A.S. Peake's _Guide to Biblical Study_, p. 244.

Footnote 8: _Thoughts on Religion_, p. 157.

Footnote 9: _The Kingdom of God_, p. 50.

Footnote 10: "Christian apologists," says Dr. Sanday, "have often done
scant justice to the intensity of this [monotheistic] faith, which was
utterly disinterested and capable of magnificent self-sacrifice."--Art.
"God," Hastings' _Dictionary of the Bible_, vol. ii, p. 205.

Footnote 11: See R.F. Horton's _Teaching of Jesus_, p. 59.

Footnote 12: A.M. Fairbairn, _Christ in Modern Theology_, p. 244.

Footnote 13: On the subject of this chapter see especially G.B. Stevens'
_Theology of the New Testament_, chap. vi.

Footnote 14: _Christian Doctrine,_ p. 77.

Footnote 15: Bishop Gore, _Bampton Lectures,_ 1891, p. 13.

Footnote 16: J. Denney, _Studies in Theology_, p. 25.

Footnote 17: For an admirable statement of the argument of this
paragraph see D.W. Forrest's _Christ of History and experience_, chap.
i. and note 4, p. 385.