It Is Impossible To Be A True

Jesus Was Certainly Not A Mere Enunciator Of Permanent Truths, Like The Modern Liberal Preacher; On The Contrary He Was Conscious Of Standing At The Turning-point Of The Ages, When What Had Never Been Was Now To Come To Be.

Certainly It Does Make The Greatest Possible Difference What We Think About God; The Knowledge Of God Is The Very Basis Of Religion.

After Listening To Modern Tirades Against The Great Creeds Of The Church, One Receives A Shock When One Turns To The Westminster Confession... And Discovers That In Doing So One Has Turned From Shallow Modern Phrases To A "dead Orthodoxy" That Is Pulsating With Life In Every Word. In Such Orthodoxy There Is Life Enough To Set The Whole World Aglow With Christian Love.

Paganism Is That View Of Life Which Finds The Highest Goal Of Human Existence In The Healthy And Harmonious And Joyous Development Of Existing Human Faculties. Very Different Is The Christian Ideal. Paganism Is Optimistic With Regard To Unaided Human Nature, Whereas Christianity Is The Religion Of The Broken Heart.

What I Need First Of All Is Not Exhortation, But A Gospel, Not Directions For Saving Myself But Knowledge Of How God Has Saved Me. Have You Any Good News? That Is The Question That I Ask Of You. I Know Your Exhortations Will Not Help Me. But If Anything Has Been Done To Save Me, Will You Not Tell Me The Facts?