n-truth of the Godhead of our Blessed Redeemer. Are you at all
aware how widely spread is ignorance and error on that subject, far
beyond the limits of the "Unitarian"[17] community? I remember a
pastoral visit long ago to a slowly dying parishioner, a labouring man
somewhat stricken in years, who had been a church-goer, though not a
communicant. I soon fell into a conversation with my friend which took a
sort of catechetical shape; my aim was to see where the soul's hopes for
eternity really rested. Who and What was JESUS, whose name I know he
humbly reverenced? Was He a good Man? Yes. But anything more? There was
a long hesitation, and then the dear man expressed a faltering
persuasion that the Lord could not be less than "a blessed angel." That
case, I am well convinced, is very much more representative than some of
us may think. At a recent Church Congress I heard some remarks in just
this direction from Bishop Walsham How, who speaks from a large pastoral
experience; his anxiety about the immense extent of popular ignorance or
misbelief about the Saviour's Person was at least as great as mine.

[17] A term which I use under protest. If a Unitarian means a believer
in the Unity of the Godhead, every orthodox Christian is a true
Unitarian. Only, he is a Trinitarian also, from another side. I may
venture to refer on this subject to a small book of my own, _Outlines of
Christian Doctrine_, p. 20.

"ALL MY SUFFERMENT HERE."

And so too is ignorance and misbelief about the work of His Cross, and
of His Holy Spirit. "I hope I shall have all my sufferment here," said
one poor invalid to me in old days, speaking indeed from a very
comfortless bed, in the slow pains of a dire disease. She had been long
within sound of clear, bright Christian teaching. But deep in the soul,
unmoved and ah, so difficult to dislodge, lay that notion of an atoning
value in our own pains which is a radical contradiction to the glorious
paradox of the perfect and unique work of Calvary:--

"Thy pains, not mine, O Christ,
Upon the shameful tree
Have paid the law's full price,
And purchased peace for me.

"Thy Cross, not mine, O Christ,
Has borne the awful load
Of sins that none in heaven
Or earth could bear but God."[18]

[18] Bonar, _Hymns of Faith and Hope_ (First Series).

THE TRUTH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

As regards the Person and the Work of the blessed Spirit, great and
general is the oblivion, and manifold ar