h skepticism there is little
argument--especially if he be still in youth, which is a time of raw and
ready judgments and of great spiritual self-sufficiency. You wanted to go
to Harvard. I wanted you to go to Princeton, because of its
Presbyterianism and because, too, of Harvard's Unitarianism. We
compromised on Yale--my own alma mater, as it was my father's. To my
belief, this was still, especially as to its pulpit, the stronghold of
orthodox Congregationalism. Was I a weak old man, compromising with Satan?
Are you to break my heart in these my broken years? For love of me, as for
the love of your own soul, _pray_. Leave the God of Moses until your
soul's stomach can take the strong meat of him--for he _is_ strong
meat--and come simply to Jesus, the meek and gentle--the Redeemer, who
died that his blood might cleanse our sin-stained souls. Centre your
aspirations upon Him, for He is the rock of our salvation, if we believe,
_or the rock of our wrecking to endless torment if we disbelieve_. Do not
deny our God who is Jesus, nor disown Jesus who is our God, nor yet
question the inerrance of Holy Writ--yea, with its everlasting burnings.
"He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved, but he that believeth
not shall be damned."

I am sad. I have lived too long.

GRANDFATHER.

(From Bernal Linford to the Reverend Allan Delcher.)

_Grandad:_ It's all so plain, you must see it. I told you I had crossed to
the farther bank. Here is what one finds there: Taking him as God, Jesus
is ineffectual. Only as an obviously fallible human man does he become
beautiful; only as a man is he dignified, worthy, great--or even
plausible.

The instinct of the Jews did not mislead them. Jesus was too fine, too
good, to have come from their tribal god; yet too humanly limited to have
come from God, save as we all come from Him.

Since you insist that he be considered as God, I shall point out those
things which make him small--as a God. I would rather consider him as a
man and point out those things which make him great to me--things which I
cannot read without wet eyes--but you will not consider him as man, so let
him be a God, and let us see what we see. It is customary to speak of his
"sacrifice." What was it? Our catechism says, "Christ's humiliation
consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the
law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God and the cursed
death of the cross; in being bur