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at this precise point, where they are really of use, Mr. 

 Mozley excludes the affections and demands a miracle 

 as a certificate of character. He will not accept any 

 other evidence of the perfect goodness of Christ. ' No 

 outward life and conduct,' he says, ' however irreproach- 

 able, could prove His perfect sinlessness, because good- 

 ness depends upon the inward motive, and the 

 perfection of the inward motive is not proved by the 

 outward act.' But surely the miracle is an outward 

 act, and to pass from it to the inner motive imposes a 

 greater strain upon logic than that involved in our 

 ordinary methods of estimating men. There is, at 

 least, moral congruity between the outward goodness 

 and the inner life, but there is no such congruity be- 

 tween the miracle and the life within. The test of 

 moral goodness laid down by Mr. Mozley is not the test 

 of John, who says, 'He that doeth righteousness is 

 righteous ; ' nor is it the test of Jesus : ' By their 

 fruits ye shall know them : do men gather grapes of 

 thorns, or figs of thistles?' But it is the test of 

 another : c If thou be the Son of Grod, command that 

 these stones be made bread.' For my own part, I 

 prefer the attitude of Fichte to that of Mr. Mozley. 

 ' The Jesus of John,' says this noble and mighty thinker, 

 ' knows no other God than the True Grod, in whom we 

 all are, and live, and may be blessed, and out of whom 

 there is only Death and Nothingness. And,' continues 

 Fichte, ' he appeals, and rightly appeals, in support of 

 this truth, not to reasoning, but to the inward practi- 

 cal sense of truth in man, not even knowing any other 

 proof than this inward testimony, " If any man will do 

 the will of Him who sent Me, he shall know of the doc- 

 trine whether it be of Grod." ' 



Accepting Mr. Mozley's test, with which alone I am 

 now dealing, it ia evident that, in the demonstration of 



