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of mankind, was put to death, and rose again to sit on 

 the right hand of God." The historical system Mr. 

 Stuart-Glennie perceives to have come to an end, and 

 the historical theory he has learned to regard as anti- 

 quated and unsound, and he therefore frankly declares 

 himself an opponent of Christianity, and stigmatises 

 as dishonest all description of the Christian religion 

 as a morality, or sentiment, or ethical impulse. With 

 the same frankness he expresses himself about beliefs 

 which " Christianism " has always held dear, in lan- 

 guage, and still more in a tone, calculated to exasperate 

 the Christian world to the last degree, so that a lead- 

 ing orthodox reviewer has been led to recognise in 

 him the " fool " described by the Psalmist who has 

 " said in his heart that there is no God." This is, 

 however, inaccurate, for Mr. Stuart-Glennie is cer- 

 tainly no atheist. It is the very purity and sensitive- 

 ness of his theistic instinct that leads him, like 

 Theodore Parker, to condemn as degrading much 

 that still finds a place in popular theology. One 

 might, indeed, even plausibly question the propriety 

 of Mr. Stuart-Glennie classifying himself as an anti- 

 Christian, were it not that he is so exphcit in defining 

 what he rejects as Christianity. But, in truth, such 

 questions of nomenclature are idle, for " Christian " 

 is a word of such wide and vague connotations that, 



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