reath of life. Especially is it to be
found in that beautiful collection, entitled the Psalms of
David, which remains, after some thousand years, perhaps the
most perfect form in which the religious sentiment of man has
been embodied.

[41] "An unfortunate reference (Acts xiv. 15), for the apostle's
declaration is, that he and his brethren were of 'like
passions" (James v. 17);--liable to the same imperfections
and mutations of thought and feeling as other men, and as
the Lystrans supposed their gods to be; while the God
proclaimed by him to them is not so. And _that_ God is the
God of the Jews as well as of the Christians; for there is
but _one_ God. Hallam's thought is an important and just
one, but not developed with his usual nice accuracy."

For this note, as for much else, I am indebted to my father,
whose powers of compressed thought I wish I had inherited.

[42] Abraham "was called the friend of God;" "with him (Moses)
will I (Jehovah) speak mouth to mouth, even
apparently,"--"as a man to his friend;" David was "a man
after mine own heart."

"But what is true of Judaism is yet more true of Christianity:
'_matre pulchra filia pulchrior_.' In addition to all the
characters of Hebrew Monotheism, _there exists in the doctrine
of the Cross a peculiar and inexhaustible treasure for the
affectionate feelings_. The idea of the {Theanthropos}, the God
whose goings forth have been from everlasting, yet visible to
men for their redemption as an earthly, temporal creature,
living, acting, and suffering among themselves, then (which is
yet more important) transferring to the unseen place of his
spiritual agency the same humanity he wore on earth, so that the
lapse of generations can in no way affect the conception of his
identity; this is the most powerful thought that ever addressed
itself to a human imagination. It is the {pou sto}, which alone
was wanted to move the world. Here was solved at once the great
problem which so long had distressed the teachers of mankind,
how to make _virtue the object of passion_, and to secure at
once the warmest enthusiasm in the heart with the clearest
perception of right and wrong in the understanding. The
character of the blessed Founder of our faith became an abstra