difications of the crude and glaring injustice of the
Calvinistic view. The doctrine of a kind of bargain between the Father
and the Son, while it revolts our moral instincts, at the same time
logically leads to the purely heathen notion of two gods.

There are two main principles which are essential to a right
understanding of the Atonement: (1) The oneness of Christ both with God
and with humanity. In regard to neither is He, nor can He be, "Another";
(2) the death of Christ was the representation in space and time of a
moral fact. It happened as an "event" in history, in order that that
moral fact, of which it was the embodiment and symbol, might become a
fact in the spiritual experience of mankind. That death was more than a
symbol, because it was the actual means by which that which it
represented might be, and has been, in the lives of all Christians
accomplished. These two principles the writer has, with whatever degree
of failure or inadequacy, endeavoured to embody in the following
addresses.

And yet the Atonement, which is, in the broadest aspect of it,
Christianity itself, is a fact infinitely greater and higher than any
mere theories of it. For it is nothing less than this, the personal
action of the living Christ on the living souls of men. That his readers
and himself may experience this action in ever-increasing measure is the
prayer of him who, as he fears, too greatly daring, has endeavoured to
set forth, yet once more, "The Glory of the Cross."

GLORIA CRUCIS

I
THE GLORY OF THE CROSS

"God forbid that I should glory save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus
Christ."--GAL. VI. 14.

There are at least two reasons, unconnected with Holy Week, why the
subject of the Cross of Christ should occupy our attention.

1. The first reason is, that the Cross is commonly recognised as the
weak point in our Christianity. It is the object of constant attack on
the part of its assailants: and believers are content too often to accept
it "on faith," which means that they despair of giving a rational
explanation of it. Too often, indeed, Christians have proclaimed and
have gloried in its supposed irrationality. To this latter point we
shall return. But in the meanwhile it is necessary to say this: all
language of harshness towards those who attack the doctrine of the
Atonement is completely out of place. For the justification of their
attacks has very often come from the Christian side.