IV. CHRIST'S MISSION TO THE INNER LIFE

1. The Kingdom is within You .

2. The Picture of Jesus in the Soul.

3. Peace with God through Christ

4. Newness of Life

V. THE PERFECTION OF ATONEMENT

1. The Love that meets All Needs

2. The Love that passeth Knowledge .

VI. THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS

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Tho' Sin too oft, when smitten by Thy rod,
Rail at Blind Fate' with many a vain 'Alas!'
From sin through sorrow into Thee we pass
By that same path our true forefathers trod;
And let not Reason fail me, nor the sod

Draw from my death Thy living flower and grass,
Before I learn that Love, which is, and was,
My Father, and my Brother, and my God.

-ALFRED TENNYSON, Doubt and Prayer.

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DOUBT is the blinding mist that rises between Doubt and man's spiritual vision and the eternal truth.

Sin is the great gulf that separates man's moral character from the divine ideal.

The mists gather, and thicken, and melt, and disperse. The gulf is always there. Ages of doubt come and go, in an abiding world of sin.

The pain of doubt is an evidence that man was made for faith. The shame of sin is an evidence that man was created for holiness. A gospel for humanity must be both for doubters and for sinners. of its sympathy will always be the

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It must not condemn doubt as if it were a sin neither must it deny sin as if it were merely an illusion of doubt.

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To doubting men and to sinful men it must speak the message of a divine love, —a revealing love that pierces the mist with rays of light and brings clearness and joy to the con