hose true humanity appealed to His fellow-men. They showed the gospel
picture to an unbelieving world, and the world responded to its appeal.

It is not easy to bridge the centuries and regain the apostles'
standpoint, but until it is done the church's message will lack
inspiration. The phrase "the historic Christ" is commonly used, as if
it covered the whole ground. It is certainly serviceable as a protest
against a bare logos theory of the incarnation, but in itself it is not
adequate. What requires emphasis is the humanity of the historic
Christ. Many Christian teachers purposely withhold this emphasis from
fear of playing into the hands of Arians and Nestorians. No doubt if
pressed they would give intellectual assent to the dogma of the two
natures, but they shrink from following it out to its consequences.
There is a widespread feeling that it is irreverent to dwell on the
fact that Christ was a real man. A firm grasp of catholic Christology
in its entirety is the cure for this squeamishness. To obscure the
fact of His Manhood is not the true reply to a denial of His Deity. A
true presentation of Christ must give full weight to the facts that He
had a human body, human mind, human feelings and human will, that His
body was in space normally subject to physical law, that His
consciousness and subconsciousness conformed to psychic law. Wherever
a denial of these facts is found, there is monophysitism. Wherever
they are obscured or neglected, there are monophysite tendencies.

INDIFFERENCE TO CHRIST'S SUFFERINGS--A CLASSICAL COMPARISON

Failure to appreciate the real humanity of Christ's life results in
comparative indifference to the tragedy of His death. Monophysitism in
undermining belief in the reality of Christ's manhood is weakening
sympathy with His sufferings. Calvary like Bethlehem has lost much of
its appeal. A classical comparison will illustrate this fact. Plato's
account of Socrates' last hour in the prison and of his drinking the
hemlock is, I imagine, to many educated men far more moving than the
story of the Passion and Death of Christ. There is a curious
similarity in the two tragedies that invites attention and comparison.
Both sufferers were heroes and moral reformers, the victims of mistaken
zeal on the part of religious authority. Socrates died in a ripe age
with his life work accomplished. Jesus was cut off in His prime.
Socrates' last hours were tranquil and his passing qu