THE MIND OF; CHRIST 101 



church, composed of thoroughly sincere men, has 

 wandered away from the simplicity and breadth of his 

 teaching. His words have so often been covered with the 

 gloss of false interpretation, laid over the tropes and 

 allegories of language which he used, that it is difficult 

 to-day to wrest them back to their primal simple mean- 

 ing. But the core of Christianity lies not in any accre- 

 tions of interpretation or belief wherewith a naive, 

 childlike faith may since have overlaid it. It consists 

 in the embodied ideal of love, the Life, that was lived 

 on this earth two thousand years ago; and in the trans- 

 figuring power of that Life, not only over humble 

 fisher-folk at the time as witnessed in the marvelous 

 letters and sayings of the apostles, but over the life of 

 every human being who has since come into the world 

 and been willing to listen attentively, modestly, and 

 appreciatively to the story of that Life. 



