in The Typical Christian. 



33 



Regeneration, appear to ignore the possibility of 

 such a life, and to teach that every true child of God 

 must have become so by returning to Him after 

 wandering away. By speaking in preference of 

 Regeneration, I on the contrary indicate my belief 

 that such conversion ought not to be, and is not 

 always, needed : that the typical Christian is he who 

 has served Christ from his earliest years; who has 

 never lost his baptismal purity, but, being clean, has 

 only to wash his feet of their daily stains. 1 



In the following chapter we shall consider what 

 Christ teaches respecting the possibility of such a 

 life of unbroken, though not perfect, service of God 

 from the beginning. 



1 John xiii. 10. 



