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the respect paid to freedom and courage in the old 

 Norse Eddas, and last, and highest of all, the lofty 

 spirit of renunciation which is the crowning glory of 

 Buddhism and of higher Israel. In a word, it is the 

 highest type in the evolution of religion, inasmuch as 

 it has taken and gathered up into itself all the per- 

 fections of the other religions of the world. 



THE MIND OF CHRIST 



The truth of the foregoing will, I believe, be made 

 plain to you as you come to study more and more 

 Christ's own words; but I must warn you, in closing 

 this study of evolutionary ideals, that by the teachings 

 of Jesus I do not mean many of the theological dogmas 

 which have been developed since his day, nor the actual 

 practise of some of his so-called churches of to-day. 

 They would seem to resemble more the tenets and 

 practise of the Jewish church of his time, against whose 

 abuses he so strongly inveighed. Scarcely one of the 

 invectives which he launched against that church 

 might not apparently be equally launched against 

 many of our modern so-called Christian churches. 

 To understand fully his teaching we must strive to 

 enter into the mind of Christ, to have in our minds the 

 same ideas which he had in his mind, when he spoke 

 of God, sons of God, the Father, the Holy Spirit or 

 Comforter, the kingdom of heaven on earth, repentance 

 unto life, the new birth, righteousness, judgment, life 

 eternal. To enter into the mind of Christ is not easy. 

 If you desire proof of this, consider how often his 



