ich did not satisfy them would
undoubtedly stand condemned.

(1) The modern mind requires that everything shall be based on
experience. Nothing is true or real to it which cannot be
experimentally verified. This we shall all concede. But there is an
inference sometimes drawn from it at which we may look with caution.
It is the inference that, because everything must be based on
experience, no appeal to Scripture has any authority. I have already
explained in what sense it is possible to speak of the authority of
Scripture, and here it is only necessary to make the simple remark that
there is no proper contrast between Scripture and experience.
Scripture, so far as it concerns us here, is a record of experience or
an interpretation of it. It was the Church's experience that it had
its redemption in Christ; it was the interpretation of that experience
that Christ died for our sins. Yet in emphasising experience the
modern mind is right, and Scripture would lose its authority if the
experience it describes were not perpetually verified anew.

(2) The modern mind desires to have everything in religion ethically
construed. As a general principle this must command our unreserved
assent. Anything which violates ethical standards, anything which is
immoral or less than moral, must be excluded from religion. It may be,
indeed, that ethical has sometimes been too narrowly defined. Ideas
have been objected to as unethical which are really at variance not
with a true perception of the constitution of humanity, and of the laws
which regulate moral life, but with an atomic theory of personality
under which moral life would be impossible. Persons are not atoms; in
a sense they interpenetrate, though individuality has been called the
true impenetrability. The world has been so constituted that we do not
stand absolutely outside of each other; we can do things for each
other. We can bear each other's burdens, and it is not unethical to
say so, but the reverse. And again, it need not be unethical, though
it transcends the ordinary sphere and range of ethical action, if we
say that God in Christ is able to do for us what we cannot do for one
another. With reference to the Atonement, the demand for ethical
treatment is usually expressed in two ways. (_a_) There is the demand
for analogies to it in human life. The demand is justifiable, in so
far as God has made man in His own image; but, as has been suggested
above, it h