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much as emancipation from the bondage of their 

 parentage. Precisely that seems to be assured 

 through the new birth. The subject of salvation 

 is not here discussed as a Scriptural doctrine ; it 

 has relations to what may be called corporate 

 depravity, and those only have occupied our 

 thought. Thus much is forced upon us by a 

 study of human nature. But I cannot forbear 

 one remark suggested by what has already been 

 said. The follower of Christ ought to get more 

 out of his faith than most Christians do. Those 

 who accept the new life from Christ, we believe, 

 are not only actually made new creatures, but are 

 in a new and spiritual succession whose legacy to 

 the future is the very life which they have re- 

 ceived from Christ. This is what earnest souls 

 have desired. While I have not intended to 

 treat this subject theologically, perhaps it may 

 not be out of place to call attention to the fact 

 that all Scripture doctrines have an ampler sig- 

 nificance the moment they are studied in terms 

 of life. In order to learn what salvation really 

 means, the reading of no sacred book is necessary, 

 but rather a careful examination of the human 

 condition. The depraved human condition, under 

 an inexorable law of reproduction, is one fact; 

 escape from that condition and from the neces- 



