world's estimate of it, is the right one.

And the teaching of experience, conscience, science, and the Bible
receives its final confirmation in the Cross of Jesus Christ. Henceforth
sin, all sins, our sins, are to be estimated and measured in the light of
the fact that sin brought about the death of the sinless Son of Man. Sin
is the real enemy of ourselves and of the race. It is the destruction of
the true self, the Divine Man in every son of man.

We need, for ourselves, to strive to attain to the genuinely Christian
estimate of sin. "Had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord
of Glory." But we have the Cross lifted up before our eyes and when, in
the light of that, we begin to hate and dread sin worse than pain, then
we shall have begun to make some real advance towards becoming that which
we long to be, and all the time mean and aspire to be--Christians,
disciples of the Crucified.

IV
THE MEANING OF SIN, AND THE REVELATION OF THE TRUE SELF

"In this we have come to know what love is, because He laid down His
life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren."--1
JOHN III. 16.

It is important that we should arrive at some clearer understanding of
the nature of sin. Let us approach the question from the side of the
Divine Indwelling. The doctrine of the Divine Immanence, in things and
in persons, that doctrine which we are to-day slowly recovering, is
rescued from pantheism by holding fast at the same time to the Christian
doctrine of the Trinity. God the Transcendent dwells in "all thinking
things, all objects of all thoughts" by His Word and Spirit. The Word,
the Logos, of which St. John speaks, is the Eternal Self-Expression of
God, standing as it were face to face with Him in the depths of His
eternal life. "In the beginning the Word was with God." He is the
Eternal Thought of God, Who includes within Himself this and all possible
universes. And the Spirit, One with the Father and the Word, gives to
the Thought of God its realisation and embodiment in what we call things.
And that realisation of the Thought of God by the Spirit of God is a
progressive realisation--

1. In inorganic nature, as power and wisdom and beauty.

2. In organic beings, as vegetable and animal life.

3. In men, as the higher reason, including our moral and spiritual
nature.

The long process of evolution is thus the progressive realisation of the
Thought of God now beco