64 THE LIGHT OF DAY 



Principal Tulloch uses, namely, as " an inner power 

 of divine mystery awakening the conscience," is to 

 make it something external to man and more or less 

 arbitrary and theological. This view the world has 

 long clung to, but it must go — is going. The Bib- 

 lical writers had no theology ; the Bible is strictly a 

 religious book, and in no sense a theological treatise. 

 Paul developed or outlined some theological notions ; 

 but wherein was Paul great — in his theology, or in 

 his religious fervor ; in his notions of predestination, 

 or in his aspirations after righteousness ? Jesus is 

 as free from any theological bias as a child is from 

 metaphysics. He taught but one thing ; namely, that 

 the kingdom of heaven is in the condition of the 

 heart, a condition illustrated by his own life. The 

 vast and elaborate system of theology which grew up 

 out of his parables and his Orientalism, and over- 

 shadowed the world for fifteen hundred years or 

 more, and begat some of the darkest crimes the his- 

 tory of man has to show, is as far from his spirit 

 and that of his disciples as the east is from the 

 west. 



Undoubtedly, religion knows certain things in a 

 more intimate and personal way than science does ; 

 so does poetry, so does literature ; and science can 

 understand how this is so. What we receive through 

 the emotions is more vital and personal to us than 

 what reaches us through the reason. The person 

 in whose mind has been awakened a deep love of 

 Jesus, comes to know Jesus in a way the mere out- 

 side observer does not ; his spirit takes hold of the 



