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the New Testament, why was it written ? Why has more 

 literature been written about that little cluster of writ- 

 ings than on any subject in the world ? How is it that 

 men, far more learned than this anonymous author — who 

 is perhaps wise in not disclosing his name — have unani- 

 mously found proof of a revealing of God the Father in 

 the " Unique " Person {Movoy€vr]<i) of Jesus Christ ; as 

 well as of the promulgation of the Brotherhood of Man 

 {'Aydirr]) ; and the means of reconciling man to God 

 (the great At-one-ment) ? 



(12) To write in the year 1903 that Christ died "in 

 order to save these (humblest creatures), from His own 

 eternal vengeance" simply shows a profound ignorance 

 of the truth, and is self-condemnatory, and needs no 

 comment. 



(13) Nature never supplied " the Universal Brother- 

 hood and Love " nor " the wondrous force of human self- 

 sacrifice and love ". He may not know it, but strange 

 to say they were first promulgated and established by 

 Jesus Christ in these Gospels, of which he speaks so 

 slightingly ! 



If this author and other Rationalists wish to know 

 what is meant by " the Spirit of Christianity," I would 

 strongly recommend the three following books — Sir John 

 Seeley's Ecce Homo, Harnack's What is CJiristianity'i 

 and the third book of A. Sabatier's Religions of AutJiority 

 (Books I, and H.), and the Religion of the Spirit (Book 

 HI.). 



