e son and he to
whomsoever the Son will reveal Him." It is this Eternal sonship which
constitutes the special significance to our confession of faith in God
the Father in the Apostles' Creed. Christ is One Who comes to us from
the Eternal life of God. That life which though inseparable from man
and from the world is yet forever holy and distinct. The Christian
doctrine of the Holy Trinity helps us here. It arose out of simple
loyalty to New Testament teaching. From the first it has been a living
practical faith. Christians learnt to recite their belief in God the
Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost; they were baptised in the
threefold Name and sang the Doxology before they thought out the
doctrine of the Trinity in Unity and before they were called upon to
defend it. We find in this great truth the most profound realization
of Personality in God. We see in it a vision of eternal fellowship in
life and in love, towards which we strive on earth. In the light of it
we begin to understand that man, not only as an individual, but also as
a social being, is made in the image of God.

II.

FUNDAMENTAL THOUGHTS ABOUT CHRIST

By The Rt. Rev. E. J. Bidwell, D.D., D.C.L., Bishop of Ontario.

TWELVE FUNDAMENTAL THOUGHTS ABOUT CHRIST BRIEFLY SUMMARIZED.

(I) Christ's Religion is a "Revealed" Religion.

(II) Jesus Christ the Son of God eternally existing in the Godhead
became Man for our salvation. This is called the Incarnation.

(III) He was born of a Virgin.

(IV) The Gospels ascribe to Christ not Divinity only, but Deity.

(V) He is also true Man, and Sinless.

(VI) When He spoke God spoke.

(VII) He is the Saviour of the world.

(VIII) He rose from the dead.

(IX) He founded a Church.

(X) He is the Mediator between man and God.

(XI) He is with His Church and her members to the end of the world.

(XII) He is the Light of the world and the Lord of Life.

CHRISTIANITY A REVEALED RELIGION

Christianity, of which Jesus Christ is the Founder and Divine Head, is
essentially a "revealed" religion. It is not, that is to say, the
result and culmination of the progress of evolution in man's beliefs
about God. Nor was it the outcome of an impact made upon Judaism by
Hellenistic thought. It is, and has always from the first claimed to
be, a direct revelation by God of Himself to man through Jesus Christ.

To say this does not mean however that t