bers of so-called Christians, under the lead of pseudo-Christian ministers, practice a religion that never rises above the purely natural. They utterly eliminate the supernatural, and if, perchance, they revere the Christ as the ideal man, they absolutely refuse to adore Him as God.
Brethren, to prove to you this doctrine were but to offend your lively faith. Your very presence here is a profession of faith, and joined as you are in Christian worship with the millions who, to-day, bowed before Christ's altar, you form a link in an infallible chain of arguments proving Christ's divinity. But you will meet those who will demand a reason for the faith that is in you, and I would have you ready with an answer. Neither are the arguments I give all that might be adduced, nor are they fully developed. The preacher's function, I believe, is to suggest individual thought rather than to convey developed ideas.
My unbelieving friend agrees with me that God exists and that the Bible is His word; that man, fallen from his original innocence, needed and was promised a Redeemer who, whether He has come of not, though an ideal man, could never be more than a mere mortal. Brethren, that position, whether held by Jew or Unitarian, is untenable. For a mortal to be the Redeemer of mankind is a contradiction. The infinite distance between God's dignity and man's nothingness must be the measure of the guilt of original sin — an infinite offence calling for an infinite atonement. Now, if all the saints and angels
