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seeming peril to many of the essential truths of religion, is it not reasonable to interpret the confused changes now going on as a gradual emergence of the fundamental principle of Christianity, so long obscured? Certainly the conditions of the present time have tended to place the emphasis upon the ethical element of Christianity. And did not Jesus place the emphasis there? A great conservative scholar says: " Our Lord s personal teachings consist mainly of mor ality." * The natural inference would seem to be that Christianity in its primal and essential character as a prin ciple of life is peculiarly adapted to the conditions of this age.
1 Broadus, " Preparation and Delivery of Sermons," p. 86.
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