suffered because a father always suffers if the one he loves goes astray. Love always sacrifices itself for the object loved if any need arises for so doing. Jesus suffered not to vindicate God's laws, but to reveal God to man and to make known God's love for him even in his sins. God being our Father, we have every reason to suppose that he will do all in his power to disclose his interest in his children, that he will show them by concrete example, and not merely by precepts and commands, how to live the highest life possible under human conditions and limitations. This Jesus did and he had the right to say of himself, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." We ought not, however, to think of God as having incarnated himself once for all two thousand years ago. He is all the time incarnating himself in human history. We cannot set any limit to the possible forms of his incarnation in the future. We have gone as far as we have any right to go when we say that Jesus was sent into the world "that he might be the first born among many brethren." Because he has shown us the mind and heart of God beyond any other being that has appeared in history we have the right to regard him as embodying our highest conception of God, and to praise and reverence him for what he has done in our behalf. INDEX Abraham, III-113, 124 Anthropomorphism in re- Apostles' Creed described, Architecture and its relation to religion, 234, 242-244 Aristotle, 286, 338 Art and its relation to re- ligion, 231-235, 242-255 Assyria, its relation to Baby- Augustine's conception of Babylonians, their sacred Blavatsky, Madame H. P., 389 Buddha, Gautama, 100-102 Butler, President, on the C Caird, Edward, definition of Calvin, John, on education, Cheyne, 119, 125 131- Christianity and education, Church, the, and property, Gautama Buddha, 100-102 as how it originated, 120, 121 Granger, Frank, on joyous- ness in early religion, 17 H Hague Peace Conference, ori- |