must have due respect, lest sinners be encouraged to neglect or depreciate that law. In all this we see the mind of the lawyerand we are not ignorant of his devices. This theory has the fault not only of having no Scriptural support, but of exalting abstract law above the personality of the Lawgiver. It represents Judge, Advocate, and the prisoner arraigned as all subordinate to an abstraction called the Law-usually a good doctrine as applied to human administration of justice, but inadequate when applied to God as the Heavenly Father, as it would be absurd when applied in a human home. Its fallacy is that of abstracting an attribute of God and exalting it above God Himself, as if the light of the sun were so much more important than the sun itself. It also seems to make such a precise distinction between the Father and the Son as to remove the latter out of the realm of the Godhead. Yet the purpose of this paragraph is not to criticise the theory of Grotius so much as to illustrate how theories of Christ's atoning and redeeming work are affected by habitual mental attitudes-how the same fact underlying the theories may be variously distorted by the mental spectacles worn by the observers, and how, if the truth is to be discovered, we must make allowance for what astronomers call the "personal equation." CHAPTER II THE MODERN POINT OF VIEW DJUSTMENT of unchanging truths to new thought-habits must forever be going on. A If theology is not to become a fossil displayed in museums of intellectual history, it must be clothed in terms of our own age. If it is to command our interest, it must be fitted like a noble spire into the architectural design of the modern temple of thought, forming an integral part of the unified structure, and not built apart, like the ancient campanile, whence self-appointed watchmen of orthodoxy scan the horizon for the enemies of Zion. The seamless garment of Christ is a beautiful symbol of the truth that there are no breaks between true science, philosophy, and religion, which together form the seamless robe of Deity. Our own age has its characteristic thoughtform, its own dominating hypothesis, that inevitably shapes our thinking on nearly all sub |