XV. 



The Message of Christianity. 



OW what is this message of the 

 modern prophet but pure Chris- 

 tianity? not the mass of theo- 

 logical doctrine ingeniously piled up by 

 Justin Martyr and Tertullian and Clement 

 and Athanasius and Augustine, but the 

 real and essential Christianity which came, 

 fraught with good tidings to men, from the* 

 very lips of Jesus and Paul! When did 

 St. Paul's conception of the two men within 

 him that warred against each other, the 

 appetites of our brute nature and the God- 

 given yearning for a higher life, when 

 did this grand conception ever have so 

 much significance as now ? When have 

 we ever before held such a clew to the 

 meaning of Christ in the Sermon on the 

 Mount ? " Blessed are the meek, for they 



