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in maintaining that sins could be forgiven if they 

 were judged sincerely by the reason of the sinner, 

 and condemned by him in resolutions of voluntary 

 repentance. He opposed no meticulous rules of 

 ethics or ceremonial to the changeful current of 

 man's social development : the principles which 

 He defined lie as deep as Life itself. The key-note 

 of His teaching was echoed by St. Paul " The 

 letter killeth, the spirit giveth life." No one 

 who believes in the spirit of Life but will accept 

 Jesus Christ as his Example and his Master. 



