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NEW TESTAMENT 



But our humanity is one and indivisible, and we cannot stand 

 here as mere scientists forgetting what the New Testament means to 

 us personally, or to the religious community to which we belong. It 

 is the charter of their existence and the source of our inspiration 

 and life. As the artist, who studies the principles of his technique 

 or the chemistry of his colors and thinks he has done justice to his 

 work, has failed as an artist, so the Christian scholar cannot investi- 

 gate the New Testament as a mere field for historical research 

 and be satisfied that his task is completed. He must be possessed 

 by the spirit of its religion and filled with the sense of its tran- 

 scendent power. 



